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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- References: <Bu2r42.5xr@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <id.I12T.GP4@ferranti.com> <1992Sep9.215657.18399@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:23:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.215657.18399@odin.diku.dk> thorinn@diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes:
- > >> The use of these features is portable.
-
- > >Pretty much.
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- > Peter, didn't you follow comp.lang.c when this was last hashed out?
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- No, I quit following comp.flame.c some time ago.
-
- > In C, multiplication of two integer values gives a result of type
- > integer, and many compilers will be oh-so-careful and produce a
- > ``correct'' integer-size result, which is then carefully sign-extended
- > to a long.
-
- Then bitch to the vendors. That may be technically legal but it's evil
- and rude. There's a lot of that going around, but it's still evil and
- rude.
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