Little problem with sizeof on PC

Erik Naggum enag at ifi.uio.no
Thu Apr 25 02:00:14 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr24.031700.17233 at agate.berkeley.edu>, Noam Mendelson writes:

   If you want to take up disk space unnecessarily and decrease
   program performance, sure, you can create ASCII data files.
   Portability will be limited to the Intel 80x86 line, however, if
   you opt to use the binary method.

If you want to take up debugging time unnecessarily and decrease
programmer performance, sure, you can create binary data files.
Portability and debug-ability will be be unlimited, however, if you
opt to use the readable data file method.

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[Erik Naggum]					     <enag at ifi.uio.no>
Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway			   <erik at naggum.uu.no>



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