PRIME pointer sizes

mrm at datagen.UUCP mrm at datagen.UUCP
Mon Feb 20 17:48:07 AEST 1984


At the ANSI X3J11 (ANSI C standards), the PRIME rep. said that for the C
compiler produced by PRIME, they do indeed have two different sizes for
pointers (ie, a word pointer which occupies 32 bits, and a byte/bit pointer
which occupies 48 bits, which is longer than their long variables are).

	Michael Meissner
	Data General Corporation
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