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From: Chris Hills <chris@phaedsys.org>
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Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:33:05 +0000
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In article <1563361.SfB03k3vvC@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik
<krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes
>Hyman Rosen wrote:
>and how will you do it in C?
>
>Use an unsigned short int. Well an short int is usualy 16 bit not 8.
>
>Use an unsigned char? Well it is 8 bit - but is is a character not a number.

[plain] char is a character
singed and unsigned char are integer types.

>If you are lucky you have real C99 compiler with byte. 

there are no C99 compilers bar the (apparently) the Tasking Tricore
compiler.




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