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From: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: looking for >32-bit address space [and how will C handle it]
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Date: 17 Apr 89 21:20:46 GMT
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	"Perhaps int1, int2, int4, int8 etc would be a good way of
	doing it (i.e. the number of bytes would be explicityly stated
	in the definition)."

This would impose an eight-bit byte, binary, twos-complement model on
the computer's arithmetic, and would render the language unsuitable for
machines like the PDP-10 (36 bits) and older CDC machines
(ones-complement).  Is the world ready for the constraints of this
model?

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!orca!frip!andrew)      [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]