Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!spdcc!mipseast!rogerk
From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Machines for testing portability (was Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code)
Message-ID: <488@mipseast.mips.COM>
Date: 2 Sep 88 14:29:40 GMT
References: <673@proxftl.UUCP> <2305@mhres.mh.nl>
Reply-To: rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA
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In article <2305@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
>From article <673@proxftl.UUCP>, by bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells):
>> Anybody else have suggestions on sets of systems for checking
>> portability?
>There exists a Pr1me system which always has the high bit
>of each byte set, so ASCII runs from 128 to 255.

Yes, *all* of 'em.

(At least, all of the "50 Series" proprietary processors.)
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