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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Interoperability: differing storage units and/or endianess
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:24:46 -0600
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"Petter Fryklund" <petter.fryklund@atero.se> wrote in message
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> UNISYS 2200 and followers has 36 bit words usually diveded into 4 x 9
> bit bytes or 6 x 6.

Right. We did a version of Janus/Ada 95 for that machine a few years back. I
don't know if they're still maintaining it. We ended up using a storage unit
of 9 with strong alignment requirements so that strings packed naturally.
'twas very interesting to build the bootstrap cross-compiler on Intel-based
Unix boxes (we were always a bit short...)

             Randy.