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- From: arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: PPC compilers
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- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 18:08:50 +0100
- References: <john.hendrikx.40ka@grafix.xs4all.nl> <MQAQx*XOe@yaps.rhein.de>
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- In article <4cokkg$415@maureen.teleport.com>, Stephan Schaem writes:
-
- > So you do math operation without knowing that your destination need to
- > be a float or a 2 byte int?
-
- Why don't you read what he wrote? A reasonable example for that would
- be operations on clock_t.
-
- > So you created a structure to hold clock value with ulong? now recompile
- > this on the system using a clock size of 64bit... where did the upper
- > 32bit goes... you know have code that is broken.
-
- Why don't you read what he wrote? You use clock_t and treat it as a
- 'black box'. As you never name the underlying type, you are fully
- portable.
-
- > It could be done in a macro assembler by 'tydefing' instruction size.
-
- Name an existing assembler that allows such things.
-
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