8 Aug
2002
8 Aug
'02
1:38 p.m.
Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Martin Norbäck <d95mback@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
However, I've yet to see an architecture where a c char is not 8 bits, and I doubt that there ever will be.
I'm porting a C compiler to a machine where char is 9 bits (and int is 36 bits). There was a time when a 36-bit word size was the norm, not an exception.
Doesn't sound like a very Haskell-related post though ;-) Maybe it's time to move this thread to another list? Cheers, Janis. -- Janis Voigtlaender http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~voigt/ mailto:voigt@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de