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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
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Subject: Re: PR1ME C compiler sources
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>[I'd still be interested in hearing what any of them did for character
>pointers. -John]

ISTR that the GT C compiler had char as a 16-bit quantity, I guess
for this reason.  That was V-Mode code.  Supposedly the newer
I-Mode instruction set supported addressing 8 bit units, but all
the stuff we did was in V-Mode.
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Aharon (Arnold) Robbins 		arnold AT skeeve DOT com