Re: standard representations

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:26:39AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 01:10 PM 12/31/00 -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > but you seem to agree that porting to most embedded type systems is more
> > > of an OS (and testing!) issue than compilation. if other complex enough
> >
> >I think there are true limits imposed by the more limited CPUs like
> >address space.  I think there might be nasty assumptions one easily
> >makes that work only on 32-bit or more address spaces.
> 
> Any assumptions spring to mind, besides "we can eat lots of memory"?

None right now but then again it's my early morning precoffee brain...
Are there any places with 32b ints and 16b ptrs?  If so, casting ints
to pointers and back would be even more debatable than usual.

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