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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:54:06 +0300
Subject: Re: C to JVM, time to revive JGNAT?
From: "Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Am 11.08.2006, 00:55 Uhr, schrieb Björn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil>:

> Maciej Sobczak wrote:
>> Björn Persson wrote:
>>> And if you write standard Ada code you can also write once and run  
>>> anywhere.
>>  Which is true also about standard C:
>>  #include <stdio.h>
>> int main()
>> {
>>     puts("Hello");
>>     return 0;
>> }
>
> Is that the most interesting program you can write in standard C? ;-)
>
> As a quick example of a non-portable aspect of standard C, let's say I  
> need to represent natural numbers from 1 to 1000000. Which data type  
> should I use to ensure that the program will be portable to all  
> platforms that can handle these numbers? In C 99 there is *finally* a  
> set of portable integer types. Can I count on those being available in  
> all compilers?

No. It took me just a quarter of an hour to create a stdtype.h for MSC yet  
Microsoft programmers se no need to create one. Ok the MS programmers  
can't just copy the version from GCC but I don't think writing from  
scratch would take more then an hour. Still no avail.

Martin

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