Hi Przemysław Which consequence for ASCII based limitation? What is harbour at present? Which Future you plan? Why you use harbour as developement system? What are power of harbour as development system?
2009/12/23 Przemysław Czerpak <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Massimo Belgrano wrote: > >> Harbour is without any hacks in core code which introduce such >> limitation like 32/64? > > Yes. It can work with any pointer size if compiler supports some > integer types larger enough to hold such pointers so it will work > also with 128 if we ever have such systems or some more exotic ones > like 48bits. It means that core code is not limited to work only with > some chosen fixed pointer sizes like 32 or 64 bits. > The only two limitations we have are 8bit byte size and ASCII based > character set due to hard coded some strict Clipper compatibility. > Removing both limits is possible but it needs a lot of work and not > all things can be ported to such systems (i.e. some binary file > formats). In current days such systems are used very seldom (i,e, > some IBM mainframes) so I do not have enough motivation to made it. > Also without regular access to the hardware it will be hard to keep > such ports alive. > > -- Massimo Belgrano _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
