Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!geovision!pt
From: pt@geovision.uucp (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 32 bit longs
Message-ID: <1348@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 91 17:21:35 GMT
References: <14824@smoke.brl.mil> <BEVAN.91Jan12120920@orca.cs.man.ac.uk> <1991Jan13.182655.17672@athena.mit.edu> <1291@mti.mti.com> <231@nazgul.UUCP>
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bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>	if (sizeof(x) == 4)
>		/* code here depends on 32 bits in x */
>		...
>	else
>		/* Portability alert! */
>		assert(0); /* rewrite this algorithm! */

What could possibly be the advantage of that code over the following?:

	/*	If this assertion fails, port to another machine or rewrite! */
	assert(sizeof(x) == 4);

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