10 Aug
2002
10 Aug
'02
8:31 a.m.
At 2002-08-10 01:21, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
Perhaps we can assume some widely true facts even if ANSI C doesn't guarantee that if it makes life easier. For example that a C type corresponding to Int32 exists at all, and that different pointer types have the same representation - we already rely on that, don't we?
No, we have separate Ptrs and FunctionPtrs IIRC... One of the things that really bothers me about C is the way its unspecifiedness about types can "infect" other languages. For instance, what exactly is a Haskell Int? Java, at least, stands firm, but then platform-independence was one of Java's explicit design priorities. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA