Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old

From	Henk Robbers <h.robbers@chello.nl>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.atari.st
Subject	Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old
Date	2017-02-26 23:49 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Op 2/26/17 om 5:00 PM schreef Francois LE COAT:

> The problem is really with the "programmed obsolescence" with GNU/GCC 4,
> and people developing the ATARI target. They forget that ATARI ST is
> a 16/32bits architecture, and the "integer" type should be proposed as
> a 16bits type. This is a matter of adequacy from the language with the
> target. A 32bits integer type is far too demanding for an ATARI 520ST
> with 1Mb of RAM, like the one that was proposed 30 years ago by ATARI.

I disagree. I always considered 16 bit integers too small for
a computer as modern as the ATARI ST having loads of ram.
(1966 mainframes are my objects of reference where ram was payed
by the kilobyte).

That's why I replaced all occurences of int in AHCC and its libraries
by short and created the sinclude folder of header files.
Still works like a charm.

-- 
Groeten; Regards.
Henk Robbers. http://members.chello.nl/h.robbers
Interactive disassembler: Digger;  http://digger.atari.org
A Home Cooked C compiler:   AHCC;  http://ahcc.atari.org

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Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-02-17 23:00 +0100
  Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 14:40 -0800
    Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-02-23 00:21 +0100
      Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Michael Schwingen <news-1457978346@discworld.dascon.de> - 2017-02-26 12:18 +0000
        Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-02-26 13:47 +0100
          Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Michael Schwingen <news-1457978346@discworld.dascon.de> - 2017-02-26 15:18 +0000
            Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-02-26 17:00 +0100
              Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 14:22 -0800
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-02-27 00:00 +0100
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 14:14 -0800
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-02-28 23:43 +0100
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@gmail.com> - 2017-03-01 14:12 -0800
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-03-04 21:51 +0100
              Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Henk Robbers <h.robbers@chello.nl> - 2017-02-26 23:49 +0100
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-02-27 18:18 +0100
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Michael Schwingen <news-1457978346@discworld.dascon.de> - 2017-02-27 21:31 +0000
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-02-28 22:40 +0100
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@gmail.com> - 2017-03-01 14:10 -0800
                Re: Eureka 2.12 is 30 years old Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2017-03-02 21:47 +0100

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