Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ifi!enag From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Little problem with sizeof on PC Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 16:00:14 GMT References: <1991Apr23.022057.29511@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr23.050747.19705@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr24.031700.17233@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu's message of 24 Apr 91 03: 17:00 GMT In article <1991Apr24.031700.17233@agate.berkeley.edu>, Noam Mendelson writes: If you want to take up disk space unnecessarily and decrease program performance, sure, you can create ASCII data files. Portability will be limited to the Intel 80x86 line, however, if you opt to use the binary method. If you want to take up debugging time unnecessarily and decrease programmer performance, sure, you can create binary data files. Portability and debug-ability will be be unlimited, however, if you opt to use the readable data file method. -- [Erik Naggum] Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway