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From: dlc@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Daryl Clevenger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: machines with oddball char * formats
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Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 02:19:36 EST
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Although I don't know the details, from what I have heard the DEC-20 suffers
from a similar problem.  Wordsize is 36 bits, I think all pointers are 18-bits
and chars can not be packed to have a pointer to them.  Also, you can define
how many bits are in a byte (although this may not necessarily be a char).
There is a version of pcc that I have seen for the 20, but I have never used
it and I hear that it doesn't generate correct code anyhow.