From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,61006929d3e14455 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Pointer Size Problem Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:52:17 +0200 Organization: AdaCL Message-ID: <1228512.nBQ5Shzmdk@linux1.krischik.com> References: <35f054ea.0410101150.25bec2f5@posting.google.com> <6Joad.8869$UP1.8086@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> <3606460.DgU2jkzDGy@linux1.krischik.com> <64622873.zC2vBuIgSo@linux1.krischik.com> Reply-To: krischik@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1098634016 03 12489 lfoTXb+1DT+y-ST 041024 16:06:56 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: b0xD76ZA8eO4yjVTWipoX53CmVfzGYinbeVqLNzmR0lAWhbsI9gHsK User-Agent: KNode/0.8.0 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5671 Date: 2004-10-24T17:52:17+02:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > Martin Krischik wrote: > >> Well, /W64 works for MS-C++ as well. > > I don't use C-incremented, either. After more the 10 years of C++ I do envy you. >> Then you have used C only in a very small windows of opportunity. You >> have missed the intersting world of the 80286 with it's host of very >> interesting memory models. > > I have indeed avoided using C on most platforms. You are a very lucky man that you could make that decision. >> And you have not yet arrived the great new world of 64 bit computing >> - where a pointer is twice the size of an int. > > Actually, I started my career in professional software development in > the world of 60-bit computing, with 120-bit double-precision > floating-point values. Most processors since then have seemed sort of > like a step backwards. However, they cost a lot less and didn't take up > most of 2 floors at the university computer center. With Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://www.ada.krischik.com