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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Common malloc/free practice violates ANSI standard ?
Message-ID: <10968@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 18 Oct 89 01:32:11 GMT
References: <1989Oct14.043811.669@anucsd.oz> <1151@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <1151@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:

>  When I started reading [a] post I thought you were going to make the
>point that you can't have C on a machine which has no single most
>restrictive boundary, such as ints start odd and double start even.
>Fortunately I can't think of a reason to build such a machine, even to
>start an argument.

Whether there was a reason or not, IBM once built one.  Well, ints and
floats were unrestricted, but instructions were addressed by even
addresses and strings were addressed by odd addresses.  True, you
couldn't put C on it.

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