28 Sep
2014
28 Sep
'14
6:07 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 05:07:54PM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
[...]
It depends. There were a lot of cross-assemblers
written in FORTRAN. Some
could be run on non-binary, non-ASCII, non-8-bit character machines.
Let's see 'C' do that.
Much of the cruft and edge-cases in the C standards are in fact down to
supporting such bizarre hardware.