Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266945AbTGGMM7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:12:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266953AbTGGMM7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:12:59 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:14761 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266945AbTGGMM6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:12:58 -0400 Subject: Re: C99 types VS Linus types From: Alan Cox To: Albert Cahalan Cc: matthias.andree@gmx.de, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1057579305.747.79.camel@cube> References: <1057579305.747.79.camel@cube> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1057580683.2748.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 07 Jul 2003 13:24:44 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 19 On Llu, 2003-07-07 at 13:01, Albert Cahalan wrote: > The days of non-power-of-two word sizes are > gone for normal computing. Sign-magnitude and > ones-compliment are dead too. Float is IEEE > format, possibly skipping a few costly features. > Nobody is going to go back to the old way. > > It's too bad the C99 committee didn't have the > guts to make this official. The C99 people have to handle non-normal computing too. C has lots of little quirks (like pointers off the end of array rules) from this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/