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From: garry@lasspvax.UUCP (Garry Wiegand)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Code Generation (register byte, short...)
Message-ID: <718@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 21:42:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 21:42:57 1985
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The definition of "int" I carry around in my head is "use whatever length
is natural and convenient on this machine; makes no difference to me."
There may be compilers that do not adhere to this (my 68000 compiler
requires a command-line switch), but I think that qualifies as a compiler
bug and a #define is in order.

As far as I've ever observed, word instructions execute at just about the
same speed as longword instructions on the vax -- ie, no penalty -- unless
you start mixing them.

garry wiegand

garry%geology@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu