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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp
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lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) writes:

> OTOH one of my DSPs has Character'Size = 32,


> a pretty common problem to almost all C based programs, because they tend to
> use constructs like
>    for (unsigned char c = 0; c < UCHAR_MAX + 1; c++) { ... }

This code is never correct, "c < UCHAR_MAX + 1" is always true, I
think.

> This DSP is always funny because sizeof(int[8]) == 4.

Funny indeed.  Is this really legal C?