Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess

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From	"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid>
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Subject	Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess
Date	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:32:02 -0400
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> Low level ability deficiencies, yes. C is pretty poor at the low level, if
> by that you mean closeness to the hardware. It was designed for PDP
> machines which were much different from modern CPUs, e.g. they had
> everything addressable, even registers were. Basically C fails at every
> level.

    PDPs I believe were middle endianess. I don't know of any machines now 
that are that type of achitecture. But the bitwise ops, that's pretty unique 
IMO.

Bill

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gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-13 21:41 -0400
  Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-14 09:14 +0200
    Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-14 15:31 -0400
      Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-14 21:38 +0200
        Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-09-14 22:05 +0100
          Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-15 09:40 +0200
            Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-09-15 11:51 +0100
              Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-15 13:49 +0100
              Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-15 17:16 +0200
                Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-09-15 22:23 +0100
                Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-16 10:44 +0200
                Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-09-16 00:18 +0000
          Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2014-09-15 06:18 -0500
        Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-15 14:23 -0400
          Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-15 21:08 +0200
            Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-15 19:32 -0400
          Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-09-15 21:07 +0100
            Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-15 21:48 -0400
  Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2014-09-15 10:57 +0200
  Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-15 14:06 +0100
    Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-15 21:50 -0400
      Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-17 09:54 +0100
        Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-17 22:29 -0400

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