On 2017-10-12, Rhodri James <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/10/17 16:06, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2017-10-12, Steve D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:41 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Even two different C compilers could return different values.
>>>>
>>>> Nope. If sizeof char is not 1, then it's not C.
>>>
>>> Today I Learned.
>>
>> It sure was an education the first I wrote C code for
>> a machine where
>>
>> 1 == sizeof char == sizeof int == sizeof long == sizeof float == sizeof
>> double
>>
>> All were 32 bits.
>
> Ah yes. In my case it was 16 bits, so sizeof long == 2 just for a
> little variation.
It does help when a char is an integral number of octets. Working
with a machine where everything is 20 bits would be even worse.
I wonder if anybody ever designed a CPU where the word size was odd?
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