Whose code should we break? ( was Re: 64 bit C )
Sean Eric Fagan
sef at kithrup.COM
Wed Feb 20 16:03:31 AEST 1991
In article <65527 at brunix.UUCP> cgy at cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>Well, this has aroused some comment; I shouldn't have said "portably." I
>should have said "portably to anywhere I know about." Does anyone know of
>a modern machine on which (char *)((unsigned long)("Yow")+1) is not "ow"?
>(Forgetting word-addressed machines, like Crays.) This is a serious
>question, not rhetorical.
Pr1me's, Cybers (180 state, that is), '386s in large model (i.e., multiple
segments), possibly some of hp's risc machines.
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