From: gwinn@ma.ultranet.com (Joe Gwinn)
Subject: Re: Size of 0..255 is not 8 bits?
Date: 1998/05/15
Date: 1998-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gwinn-1505982152250001@d181.dial-1.cmb.ma.ultra.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.895191407@merv
In article <dewar.895191407@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
> Size causes so much confusion among those who don't understand it clearly,
> that I often find that when the code is displayed it does not at all
> correspond to the original decsription.
> does not
> clearly correspond to the description or conclusions that have
> been published!
>
> It is interesting that a significant portion of our support activities
> revolves around issues with size and other representation clauses,
> where programmers have written implementation dependent code and
> not realized that they were doing so. We spend quite a bit of time
> explaining the problem and helping to figure out how to most easily
> fix it.
If the same problems and misunderstandings keep arising, perhaps this is a
good area to write some FAQ items about.
Joe Gwinn
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-14 0:00 Size of 0..255 is not 8 bits? Markus Kuhn
1998-05-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-05-14 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Simon Pilgrim
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn [this message]
1998-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-17 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
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