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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Interoperability: differing storage units and/or endianess
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:55:26 +0100
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:54:02 +0100, Michael Paus
<pausnospam@nospamib-paus.com> wrote:

>Stephen Leake wrote:
>
>> Michael Paus <pausnospam@nospamib-paus.com> writes:
>> 
>>>Bibb Latting wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi, I am working on a distributed application where the processors
>>>>have differing storage unit sizes and/or endianess.  My problem is how
>>>>to handle the specification of memory contents and the delivery of
>>>>data to applications with minimal variation between implementations.
>>>>I'd like to know what solutions have worked well for others.
>>>
>>>And I'd like to know which currently used processors have a storage
>>>unit size other than 8.
>> 
>> Many DSPs use 16 bit words.
>
>Interesting! I haven't worked with DSPs for a very long time. Could
>you tell me how they map, e.g. a character. Does it always have
>16 bits or don't they have the type character at all anymore?

Do you mean Ada or C? In Ada the type Character need not to be
aliased. As for C, I remotely remember a DSP compiler that used 32
bits per char. It is allowed in ANSI C, AFAIK.

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