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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Pointer Size Problem 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> In-Reply-To: <64622873.zC2vBuIgSo@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:35:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.226 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1098495341 63.184.105.226 (Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:35:41 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:35:41 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5653 Date: 2004-10-23T01:35:41+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > Well, /W64 works for MS-C++ as well. I don't use C-incremented, either. > 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. > 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. -- Jeff Carter "You couldn't catch clap in a brothel, silly English K...niggets." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 19