Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: sizeof Message-ID: <6939@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 13:21:30 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6939 Posted: Fri Feb 8 13:21:30 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 05:45:47 EST References: <7904@brl-tgr.ARPA> <301@psivax.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 > I used to use > a Honeywell mainframe. The architecture dates back to the 60's, > and Honeywell has kept it around in the name of upward compatibility. > The machine is a *word* oriented machine with a 36 bit word(yes 36, > not 32), ... > This is what I call brain-damaged, but it is *real*, and a Honeywell > C-compiler must put up with different types of pointers for ints and > chars, *or* make chars 36 bits. > -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) Not only that, but its characteristics are quoted in a table appearing TWICE in K&R. Therefore EVERYONE has already been warned about such kinds of brain damage. -- Norman Diamond UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond CSNET: ndiamond%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet ARPA: ndiamond%watdaisy%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa "Opinions are those of the keyboard, and do not reflect on me or higher-ups."