Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: "Derek M. Jones" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: C compiler pointer management on DSPs Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:19:03 +0100 Organization: virginmedia.com Lines: 23 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <19-09-017@comp.compilers> References: <19-09-003@comp.compilers> <19-09-004@comp.compilers> <19-09-006@comp.compilers> <19-09-007@comp.compilers> <19-09-009@comp.compilers> <19-09-015@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="64146"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: C, architecture, history Posted-Date: 28 Sep 2019 21:18:23 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com In-Reply-To: <19-09-015@comp.compilers> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2367 George, > Just curious - what DSPs have 48-bit characters? Motorola DSP56000 Family Optimizing C Compiler uses 24 bits TMS320C3x/C4x Optimizing C Compiler uses 32 bits I remember reading a compiler manual and thinking, wow, that's unusual. It's not listed here: www.knosof.co.uk/cbook so the manual reading happened after 2008. Running pdfgrep over my collection of manuals, using the obvious search patterns does not return anything. An hour of google searching does not find anything. To be continued... -- Derek M. Jones blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com