On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 07:36, Roland Illig wrote:
Do we want mc to be able to run on platforms that have:
- 16 bit ints
- 16 bit size_t
- other weird system limits?
This would affect all arithmetic operations that could lead to numbers
bigger than 32k in magnitude.
What's the
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:41:02AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 10:09 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
Pavel Roskin wrote:
No. In particular, I don't think we need to support Win64, where long
cannot hold a pointer.
Why not? What's wrong about that?
Because it's a
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:41:02AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 10:09 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
Pavel Roskin wrote:
No. In particular, I don't think we need to support Win64, where long
cannot hold a pointer.
Why not? What's wrong about
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:11:35PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
And even size_t has nothing to do with the representation of pointers.
i don't think we're speaking about such stupid things as casting between
pointers and non-pointers (for other purposes than abusing a void* as a
variant type
Pavel Roskin wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 07:13 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
- other weird system limits?
No. In particular, I don't think we need to support Win64, where long
cannot hold a pointer.
Why not? What's wrong about that?
Roland
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On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 07:13 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
Do we want mc to be able to run on platforms that have:
- 16 bit ints
- 16 bit size_t
No.
- other weird system limits?
No. In particular, I don't think we need to support Win64, where long
cannot hold a pointer.
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Do we want mc to be able to run on platforms that have:
- 16 bit ints
- 16 bit size_t
- other weird system limits?
This would affect all arithmetic operations that could lead to numbers
bigger than 32k in magnitude.
Roland
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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:13:36AM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
Do we want mc to be able to run on platforms that have:
- 16 bit ints
- 16 bit size_t
hardly any unix app will run or even compile under these conditions.
we're not in the 70s any more. :)
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