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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Consulair Mac C vs. Megamax C
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Date: Sat, 30-Mar-85 16:39:10 EST
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In article <678@druxx.UUCP> lat@druxx.UUCP (TepperL) writes:
>I had an opportunity to look at the Megamax C manual.  As I understood one
>of the early chapters, sizeof(short) == 1.  Is this really the case?
>...
>In particular, this would be a hassle if you wanted to port some programs
>written for the UNIX C compilers for the PDP-11, VAX and other machines.
>...

I just thought I would clarify Consulair Mac-C's place in this discussion and
mention that I do know that Megamax sizeof(int) is 2.

		PDP-11		VAX	IBM-370 Mac-C(default)	Mac-C(option)
sizeof(short)	  2		 2	   2	      2		    1
sizeof(int)	  2		 4	   4	      4		    2
sizeof(long)	  4		 4	   4          4             4

Bill Duvall( Consulair ) states in the manual that the default of 16 bit
shorts and 32 bit longs is for portability and that the option of 8 bit shorts
and 16 bit int's is optimum for the architecture of the 68000 and generates
faster, more compact code.
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