Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: C99 types VS Linus types | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 07 Jul 2003 13:24:44 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2003-07-07 at 13:01, Albert Cahalan wrote: > The days of non-power-of-two word sizes are > gone for normal computing. Sign-magnitude and > ones-compliment are dead too. Float is IEEE > format, possibly skipping a few costly features. > Nobody is going to go back to the old way. > > It's too bad the C99 committee didn't have the > guts to make this official.
The C99 people have to handle non-normal computing too. C has lots of little quirks (like pointers off the end of array rules) from this.
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