Two Birds with One Stone

jack at boring.UUCP jack at boring.UUCP
Wed Dec 4 10:46:34 AEST 1985


In article <219 at brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn at BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) writes:
[Replying to an article about Jim Cotrell's new machine]
>  But it is not much harder to
>write C code that would port to your hypothetical example
>machine (19-bit shorts, base 3, etc.) than it is to write
>it for a VAX.  
 One problem. Does the ANSI standard specify what left-
and right-shifts do, w.r.t. arithmatic values? And &|!^ etc?

:-), of course. Followups on boolean arithmatic (if you can call it
that) on terniary machines should go to net.arch.
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack at mcvax.UUCP
	The shell is my oyster.



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