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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: 16bit vs. 32bit
- Date: 1 Apr 96 22:01:52 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <315D9D57.5FED@oc.com> Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com> writes:
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- >Steve Summit wrote:
- >>
- >> If you're a nutso flaming Standard-thumping language lawyer, you
- >> know that the Standard doesn't guarantee that individual objects
- >> can be larger than 32k, and you just don't ever try to allocate
- >> large, contiguous arrays.
- >
- >Thanks Steve for the reply. I'm trying on my magic language-lawyer hat
- >right now, but it doesn't help, cause I'm still overlooking the 32K reference.
- >Is it contained in a certain Clause that you can cite?
-
- It's in the "Translation limits" section (ANSI classic 2.2.4.1). I've
- posted it to this very newsgroup half a zillion times.
-
- >I thought that
- >there was a limitation like that, but I'm going "nutso" trying to find it.
- >
- >Is this one of those minimal maxima type values?
-
- If you're thinking at the <limits.h> stuff, the answer is no.
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
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