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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write |
| Date | 2016-09-19 17:03 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <e499t5FtdveU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 09/19/16 10:46 AM, supercat@casperkitty.com wrote: > On Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 5:15:14 PM UTC-5, Bart wrote: >> 'short' and 'long' might have been better implemented as relative (not >> absolute) modifiers of 'int': respectively halving or doubling the >> width, whatever that is, rather than allowing them to do nothing at the >> whim of the implementation. > > For a long time, the majority of C implementations defined integer types > consistently as: > > char 8 bits > short 16 bits > int 16 or 32 bits > long 32 bits > > I don't see how making the sizes relative would be an improvement on that. Most (all?) compilers for 32 targets still do. > It would be more useful to define a means by which a piece of source code > could indicate its expectations for integer types, with a requirement that > compilers must either process the code in accordance with its specifications > or indicate in a defined fashion that it cannot do so. If a program > indicates that it needs integer overflow to behave a certain way, then > within that program integer overflow would not cause Undefined Behavior. It probably already can with the appropriate static assertions. -- Ian
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-18 23:15 +0100
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-18 15:46 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-19 17:03 +1200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-19 07:40 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-19 10:54 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-19 10:51 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-19 22:03 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-19 15:44 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-20 09:02 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-19 21:12 +0100
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-19 15:58 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-19 09:49 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-19 02:37 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-19 13:20 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-19 06:22 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-19 12:46 +0100
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-19 16:20 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-19 07:32 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-19 11:26 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-19 09:10 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-19 09:33 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-19 11:54 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-19 22:14 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-19 22:12 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-19 14:32 -0700
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-20 07:49 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-20 19:43 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-20 11:15 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-19 22:36 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-09-22 21:30 -0700
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-23 19:45 +1200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-09-28 08:17 -0700
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-29 07:59 +1300
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-09-21 21:03 -0700
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-22 08:09 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-09-23 10:31 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-23 10:56 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-09-29 08:03 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-30 07:39 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-22 09:49 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-22 08:34 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-22 17:44 +0100
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-24 11:42 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-24 14:13 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-24 23:03 -0700
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-24 14:23 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-25 14:16 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-25 15:18 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-25 16:39 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-25 23:33 -0700
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-26 03:05 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-09-26 11:09 +0100
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-09-26 17:37 +0100
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-09-26 12:29 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-26 11:12 +0100
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-26 13:19 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-26 18:34 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2016-09-27 06:43 +0000
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-27 00:51 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-27 08:42 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-22 11:40 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-09-23 10:00 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-23 10:34 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-09-29 08:13 -0700
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-09-18 00:06 +0200
Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-09-17 17:32 -0700
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Re: Portable 16 bit binary integer write supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-09-13 07:47 -0700
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