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From: hermit@shockeye.UUCP (Mark Buda)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Software Distribution
Message-ID: <222@shockeye.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 21:26:33 GMT
References: <1988Sep29.192410.246@utzoo.uucp> <997@esunix.UUCP> <1988Oct11.162611.25330@utzoo.uucp> <1988Oct13.202604.22464@ateng.ateng.com>
Reply-To: hermit@shockeye.UUCP (Mark Buda)
Organization: Competitive Computer Systems, Lancaster PA
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In article <1988Oct13.202604.22464@ateng.ateng.com> chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
|According to henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
|>In article <997@esunix.UUCP> bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:
|>>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.
|
|Just a confirmation and a testimonial here.  C News Alpha runs just fine
|on a '286, thanks much to Messrs. Spencer and Collyer.

GNU CC, however, doesn't. I expected more from them... sniff...
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