Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

[Chuck Guzis]

On 02/20/2015 09:47 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> One can argue that a not-quite-C compiler for a PDP-10 that supported
> 6-, 7-, and 8-bit character types as well as 18-bit and 36-bit
> integers would be useful, but by definition it wouldn't actually be C.

What does the C standard say about the physical size of an int in bits, 
versus the largest and smallest integer that can be held in those bits?
Consider a 64 bit int which is a simple degenerate floating point number 
with 16 bits of mantissa (presumably set to 0) and 48 signed bits of 
mantissa.  All math done in unnormalized floating point.

Does C require 1's or 2's complement or can it support sign-magnitude 
integers?

--Chuck