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Subject: sizeof
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 17:43:05 EST
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/*
Bob Larson has a machine with 48 bit ptr's & 32 bit int's & long's.
What is this beast? Someone also said that ptr's to different objex
may be different sizes. Where & why? I realize that a certain machine
may desire this to make implementation as efficient as possible, but I
think the designers should just bite the bullet and make all ptr's
the same size. The machine is probably brain damaged anyway. Any
machine not byte addressable is an inhospitable host for C at best.
As I said before, my model is the pdp-11/vax architecture. The 68000
and 32032 fall into this category. I really don't care if my code
is not portable to some weird architecture I have never seen or
do not wish to see again (u1108).
*/