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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: sizeof in 36-bits machines
Message-ID: <14876@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 13 Oct 89 01:51:01 GMT
References: <272@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <272@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:
>Assuming a 36-bit integer (e.g. DEC-10 :-) and 8-bit bytes...

No.  Objects must be composed of bytes; if the word size is 36, the only valid
byte sizes are {9, 12, 18, 36}.  In fact, this is an explicit example in the
Rationale document.

(An alternative would be to emulate a 32-bit implementation by always
discarding the upper four bits.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint