Re: Some ideas about c?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Date	2017-05-18 08:48 -0700
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Subject	Re: Some ideas about c?
From	supercat@casperkitty.com

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On Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 10:33:15 AM UTC-5, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Nope, but they don't do *only* limited hardware, and quite a bit of
> limited hardware does support floating point numbers.  Plus all I know
> of support string functions.

Zero-terminated strings are an okay choice for read-only strings, but not
really for code that needs to actively manipulate strings.  Doing any kind
of string manipulation requires keeping track of the length, and if one is
keeping track of the length the terminating zero is just a wasted byte.

There are times when floating-point can be useful, but for many kinds of
applications on smaller systems, the time required for an implementer to
provide floating-point support could likely be better spent on other things
like efficient computations of the form int8*int16/int8, int8*int16>>8,
etc. along with variations that support rounding.

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Some ideas about c? Vassilis Spiliopoulos <vassilis@vask1lux.de> - 2017-05-17 23:23 +0300
  Re: Some ideas about c? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-18 08:40 +1200
  Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-17 23:00 +0200
    Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-17 14:59 -0700
      Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 00:08 +0200
        Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-17 22:09 -0700
          Re: Some ideas about c? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-18 18:22 +1200
          Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 12:36 +0200
            Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 03:53 -0700
              Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 14:24 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 08:37 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 05:47 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 15:20 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 06:28 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-18 13:56 +0000
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 16:30 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 07:45 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-18 16:08 +0100
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 08:15 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 11:46 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? Vassilis Spiliopoulos <vassilis@vask1lux.de> - 2017-05-18 21:33 +0300
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 15:29 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 01:23 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 18:12 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 10:08 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 00:39 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Vassilis Spiliopoulos <vassilis@vask1lux.de> - 2017-05-19 14:27 +0300
                Re: Some ideas about c? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-05-19 13:41 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-19 13:04 +0100
                Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 10:00 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 14:14 +0200
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 11:33 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 08:47 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-18 08:48 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 09:02 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-18 10:52 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 15:35 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-18 14:01 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 17:38 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-18 15:54 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-18 22:17 -0400
                Re: Some ideas about c? John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 08:06 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 09:17 -0700
  Re: Some ideas about c? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2017-05-17 14:34 -0700
    Re: Some ideas about c? Vassilis Spiliopoulos <vassilis@vask1lux.de> - 2017-05-18 16:16 +0300
  Re: Some ideas about c? Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-18 10:26 -0300
  Re: Some ideas about c? John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 07:36 -0700
    Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-18 18:23 +0000
      Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 21:51 +0100
        Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-19 12:38 +0000
          Re: Some ideas about c? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-19 07:44 -0700
            Re: Some ideas about c? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-19 16:45 +0100
              Re: Some ideas about c? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-19 21:59 -0700
            Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 10:06 -0700
              Re: Some ideas about c? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-19 18:18 +0100
                Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 11:59 -0700
                Re: Some ideas about c? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-19 21:05 +0100
          Re: Some ideas about c? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-05-19 12:42 -0400
            Re: Some ideas about c? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-05-19 17:54 +0100
            Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 18:52 +0100
          Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 18:51 +0100
            Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-19 18:55 +0000
              Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 19:58 +0100
              Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 12:12 -0700
            Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 12:01 -0700
    Re: Some ideas about c? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-19 08:22 +1200
      Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-18 21:53 +0100
      Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-19 12:36 +0000
        Re: Some ideas about c? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-19 18:54 +0100
          Re: Some ideas about c? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-05-19 18:58 +0000
            Re: Some ideas about c? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-19 12:18 -0700

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