Integer sizes; storage classes.

dgary at ecsvax.UUCP dgary at ecsvax.UUCP
Sat Jun 23 10:47:30 AEST 1984


>From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn at BRL-VLD.ARPA>
>
>That 6809 C implementation is clearly a "toy" since practically NO
>useful existing C program can survive having ints reduced to the range
>-128..127.

Just an observation:  For some (admitedly limited) purposes, such as
writing a game, this C might be quite nice.  As someone much wiser than
I has observed, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian."

D Gary Grady
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