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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Software Distribution
Message-ID: <1988Oct11.162611.25330@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Sep29.192410.246@utzoo.uucp> <997@esunix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 88 16:26:11 GMT

In article <997@esunix.UUCP> bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:
>You mention the case of a program that has been designed so that it
>can be run efficiently on a machine with small ints (say 16 bits). If
>the program is developed on a machine with large ints (say 32 bits),
>how does the programmer really know if it will work using small ints
>without testing it on a machine with small ints? ...

Competent programming by people who understand portability.  We know
this works, we do it.
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