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From: mrm@datagen.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: PRIME pointer sizes
Message-ID: <59@datagen.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 02:48:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 20 02:48:07 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Feb-84 07:25:40 EST
Organization: Data General Dist. Systems, Westborough, MA
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At the ANSI X3J11 (ANSI C standards), the PRIME rep. said that for the C
compiler produced by PRIME, they do indeed have two different sizes for
pointers (ie, a word pointer which occupies 32 bits, and a byte/bit pointer
which occupies 48 bits, which is longer than their long variables are).

	Michael Meissner
	Data General Corporation
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