lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Jul]   [7]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: C99 types VS Linus types
From
Date
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.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:46    [W:0.345 / U:0.136 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site