From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Pointer Size Problem
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:35:41 GMT
Date: 2004-10-23T01:35:41+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Nzied.4688$%h1.2648@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64622873.zC2vBuIgSo@linux1.krischik.com>
Martin Krischik wrote:
> Well, /W64 works for MS-C++ as well.
I don't use C-incremented, either.
> Then you have used C only in a very small windows of opportunity. You
> have missed the intersting world of the 80286 with it's host of very
> interesting memory models.
I have indeed avoided using C on most platforms.
> And you have not yet arrived the great new world of 64 bit computing
> - where a pointer is twice the size of an int.
Actually, I started my career in professional software development in
the world of 60-bit computing, with 120-bit double-precision
floating-point values. Most processors since then have seemed sort of
like a step backwards. However, they cost a lot less and didn't take up
most of 2 floors at the university computer center.
--
Jeff Carter
"You couldn't catch clap in a brothel, silly English K...niggets."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-10 19:50 Ada Pointer Size Problem skidmarks
2004-10-11 1:38 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-12 18:44 ` skidmarks
2004-10-13 1:23 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-13 8:07 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-13 16:27 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-10-11 5:18 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-21 1:16 ` Dave Thompson
2004-10-21 1:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-21 9:54 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 1:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-22 7:48 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 9:41 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-22 16:50 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-24 16:05 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-23 1:35 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2004-10-24 15:52 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 5:41 ` Simon Wright
2004-10-22 18:05 ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-11-01 8:14 ` Dave Thompson
2004-10-11 8:45 ` Martin Krischik
[not found] ` <1c2f5137.0410130505.57e03c@posting.google.com>
2004-10-13 13:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-14 3:46 ` Steve
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