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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: [OT] programming |
| Date | 2015-10-09 09:26 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> On 09/10/15 09:28, Richard Heathfield wrote:
[...]
>> On that platform, no unit smaller than 32 bits is addressable.
>>
>> It would be possible for a C implementation to set CHAR_BIT at 8 only if
>> they jump through all the necessary hoops to ensure that the
>> implementation behaves "as if" 8-bit units were addressable. I don't
>> think the Analog Devices people went to that trouble.
>
> The devices would be far more useful if they /did/ go to that trouble.
> But you wouldn't expect that from a compiler toolchain that costs a mere
> $20K (last I looked, the price was in that range), and a couple of years
> ago brought out a new version with partial support for some C99 features.
How would they be "far more useful"? As I understand it, these
devices aren't used to process octet-oriented data. If you wanted
to do a bunch of ASCII string processing, for example, you'd do it
on the computer that the DSP is connected to, not on the DSP itself.
[...]
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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Re: [OT] programming Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-07 10:02 +0100
Re: [OT] programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-07 02:18 -0700
Re: [OT] programming "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-10-08 19:07 -0400
Re: [OT] programming Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-09 00:20 +0100
Re: [OT] programming Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-09 00:48 +0100
Re: [OT] programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-08 17:48 -0700
Re: [OT] programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-10-09 10:38 +0200
Re: [OT] programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-09 09:31 -0700
Re: [OT] programming Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-09 08:34 -0400
Re: [OT] programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-09 12:05 -0700
Re: [OT] programming Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-09 08:28 +0100
Re: [OT] programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-10-09 10:50 +0200
Re: [OT] programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-09 09:26 -0700
Re: [OT] programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-10-11 20:30 +0200
Re: [OT] programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-11 12:09 -0700
Re: [OT] programming Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-09 10:40 +0100
Re: [OT] programming Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-09 09:23 -0700
Re: [OT] programming Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-09 17:35 +0100
Re: [OT] programming Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-09 22:50 -0700
Re: [OT] programming David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-10-09 10:34 +0200
Re: [OT] programming glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-09 00:20 +0000
Re: [OT] programming "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-07 09:37 -0700
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