What breaks? (was Re: 64 bit longs?)
john c chu
chu at acsu.buffalo.edu
Tue Jan 15 10:29:32 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jan13.220958.16568 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
[model deleted]
>It is intuitively appealing, but I would be surprised to see anyone
>implementing it: it would break far too much badly-written software.
Can someone please tell me what would break under that model and why?
It's not that I don't believe it, or that I want to write code that
will break. It's that I want to avoid making the unwarranted
assumptions that would lead to my code breaking.
Reply via E-mail unless this is of general interest. (I have no idea.)
john
chu at autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu
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