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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Are the criteria for Unix and PC compilers different?
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Date: 6 Mar 88 12:49:29 GMT
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In article <1106@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>, backstro@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Dave White) writes:
}The PC compiler vendors broke down and developed support for arcane
}memory models -- even huge model, with arrays >64K bytes, which involve
}a subroutine call to handle pointer manipulation.  When will they
}realize that some of us really want the option of using 32-bit ints to
}port Unix-born code?  Yes, the code would be slow, but that'd be better
}than not having the resulting program run without weeks of debugging!
}--
}backstro@silver.bacs.indiana.edu

#define int long

Need I say more?

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