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Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ?

From Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ?
Date 2021-09-02 05:37 +0200
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Am 01.09.2021 um 21:43 schrieb james...@alumni.caltech.edu:
> On Wednesday, September 1, 2021 at 2:37:13 PM UTC-4, Bonita Montero wrote:
>> Am 01.09.2021 um 19:44 schrieb David Brown:
>>
>>> I believe there are more dedicated DSP's produced per year than 64-bit
>>> cpus. There may even be more 4-bit microcontrollers still produced than
>>> 64-bit cpus. AMD and Intel each sell perhaps 500,000 processors a year
>>> (according to a quick google search). There are DSPs and other
>>> specialist microcontrollers with minimum order quantities of millions.
>>> I know of microcontrollers (programmable in C, and in this case with
>>> 8-bit char) that cost $0.03 each.
>> The issue is not about whether they're can't address raw bytes but just
>> larger quantities. The issue is about machines with typed pointers, i.e.
>> when you cast a pointer they change their bit-representation, and these
>> exist in a homeopathic amount.
> 
> Keep in mind that not being able to address bytes is the single most
> common reason for having two or more different sizes of pointers.

No, on the platforms where you don't have byte-pointers you almost never
have typed pointers.
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Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2021-08-30 21:59 -0500
  Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2021-08-30 21:53 -0700
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  Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2021-08-31 09:01 +0200
    Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 23:46 -0500
      Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-09-01 08:19 +0200
      Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-09-01 15:32 +0000
        Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 19:20 +0200
          Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-09-01 19:44 +0200
            Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 13:17 -0500
              Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-09-01 20:32 +0200
              Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-09-01 19:00 +0000
                Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 15:06 -0500
                Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-09-01 20:14 +0000
                Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-01 14:04 -0700
                Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-09-01 23:44 +0000
            Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 20:37 +0200
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                Re: Examples of current platforms/architectures where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(int*) ? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-09-02 05:37 +0200
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