From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b65fc33a05f24b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:09:25 +0100 Subject: Re: A curiosity... From: "Martin Krischik" Organization: Martin Krischik, Softwareentwicklung Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <0f009ce8-0f50-4b85-9368-0d0c68f42da1@w34g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <396044ea-4c37-4923-b989-eb4af2202bd3@o2g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <87r64naw36.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.62 (MacIntel) NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.221.211.79 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=kA[:CDGGd3^jXN@]UnT6J_YSB=nbEKnk[V`^KZl[Dm9\S5daR30PdPUV:_8RJBabH];O^i0GOe`^SlFL?f>83Eh\4oSd Am 05.12.2008, 09:02 Uhr, schrieb Samuel Tardieu : > #include > int main() > { > printf("integer size is %d, pointer size is %d\n", > sizeof(int), sizeof(void*)); > return 0; > } Of course my copy ISO C standart states that only intptr_t and uintptr_t *need* to be lange enough to hold a pointer. The real problem is that most C programmers don't know that. Which gets us back to the "C is alright - just get better programmers". Only: realy good C programmers are just as scares as Ada progammers. Martin -- Martin Krischik