21 May
2016
21 May
'16
8:29 p.m.
On 2016-05-21 10:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 05/21/2016 09:34 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
The Grishman book[1] gave me the impression that this was challenging on
the CDC 6x00 as well.
[1] http://ygdes.com/CDC/Grishman_CDC6000AsmLangPgmg.pdf
--Toby
On 2016-05-21 10:26 PM, ben wrote:
Right, on the LINC, if you compared positive zero to negative zero, it
would not set the equals flag!
I have no idea how many tests had to be put in the code for that, but
anyplace where the two values could be zero, you had to check for that
special case. On 5/20/2016 7:19 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
Don't underestimate the headache of handling two zeroes.
>
> Hehe, what is a long long? Yes, you are totally right. Still, I assert
> that C is still the defacto most portable language on Earth. What
> other
> language runs on as many OS's and CPUs ? None that I can think of.
A long long is at least 64-bits long.
Only if you get rid of char pointers you are portable.
I like 1's compilent because it handles shifting properly.
using 1's compilment unsigned would be 1 bit less in size
not 1 bit more the C standard seems to make it.
Jon