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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  Integer sizes; storage classes.
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Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 20:47:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 22 20:47:30 1984
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>From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA>
>
>That 6809 C implementation is clearly a "toy" since practically NO
>useful existing C program can survive having ints reduced to the range
>-128..127.

Just an observation:  For some (admitedly limited) purposes, such as
writing a game, this C might be quite nice.  As someone much wiser than
I has observed, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian."

D Gary Grady
Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-4146
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