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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:00:01 +0000 (UTC)
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* Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote:
>Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>> >sizeof(int[8]) = 8 * sizeof(int)
>> 
>> Nack. Or are packed arrays unsupported? Even, if the addressing granularity
>> is finer than the character size?
>
>By definition in C and C++, the adressing granularity is the character
>size.

Noticed this a few hours ago.

>Yes, they are unifying/confusing two different things.

Definitly. OTOH the CPU manufactures don't care about this nifty braindamage.