2 Jul
2012
2 Jul
'12
7:30 p.m.
On 07/02/2012 09:10 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Dave McGuire once
stated:
Well, at work, we develop code that has to run on both 32 and 64 bit
systems (Pentium and SPARC, so I get the fun of byte swapping too!). I
don't even know what the size of a 'long' is on the 64 bit system (but I
don't really have to care when I can select uint32_t or uint64_t as needed).
I *do not* envy you there. ;)
I learned C during the large 16-bit/32-bit switch
(MS-DOS) and there, the
sizes of nearly *everything* changed on what memory model was used ...
I learned it a hair earlier than that (386s were just hitting the
streets) but never did much development (in C anyway) in DOS. I was
mostly 68K at the time.
-spc (If I recall correctly, there were several
different compilers for
68k based systems where an 'int' could be 16 bits or 32 bits ... )
I don't recall any of those...any recollection of which ones?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA