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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1cf653444208df72 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-17 01:38:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feed.news.nacamar.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!cert.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp Date: 17 Oct 2001 10:37:52 +0200 Organization: RUS-CERT, University of Stuttgart, Germany Sender: rusfw@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Message-ID: References: <9q7na102nqn@drn.newsguy.com> <3BCBF40A.BBDD4FE6@free.fr> <87669foaf2.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <878zebmjgy.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: hornet.rus.uni-stuttgart.de 1003307826 24026 129.69.1.226 (17 Oct 2001 08:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cert.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:37:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14781 Date: 2001-10-17T10:37:52+02:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake writes: > Florian Weimer writes: > > > The revision of POSIX.1 will require 8 bit bytes, I think, but of > > course, there's no such requirement in the C language (except that the > > size must be greater than 7 bits). > > Interesting. So there will be no implementations of POSIX.1 on 16 bit > addressable machines? Probably. But you could write C compilers with CHAR_BIT == 8 even for such architectures. > I guess that's not a big loss. It's suddenly much easier to write POSIX-compliant applications. ;-)