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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: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 16:39:48 +0100
- References: <john.hendrikx.40ka@grafix.xs4all.nl> <MQAQx*XOe@yaps.rhein.de>
- <OWhVx*42f@yaps.rhein.de> <4cuhng$dmn@maureen.teleport.com>
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- In article <4cuhng$dmn@maureen.teleport.com>, Stephan Schaem writes:
-
- > The claim was general: you can forget your variable type when you use
- > them in C...
-
- Wrong. The claim was that once you have chosen a type suitable for
- your needs, you don't need to know what type with which representation
- it actually was, as long as you use it as you anticipated to.
-
- > What if clock_t is on other system a pointer to a bcpl string?
-
- What if the plus operator stops working?
-
- The language definition guarantees that clock_t has an arithmetic
- type.
-
- > : Name an existing assembler that allows such things.
- >
- > You can write yourself [...]
-
- OK, so there apparently is none. As I suspected.
-
- > I repeated myself too much already
-
- Indeed. Repetition without progress is a waste.
-
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