Style guides and portability

[Karl Heuer]

In article <1291 at mti.mti.com> adrian at mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy) writes:
>But does "pure binary numeration system" imply that you can't make an
>ANSI-compliant C compiler for a BCD machine?

Sort of.  More precisely, the compiler would have to generate code that makes
the machine emulate a binary architecture where necessary.  (E.g. for "|".)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint