cent and ucent?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 09:24:48PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/29/2012 8:21 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 07:47:26PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> >>I've had people tell me this was an advantage because there are some
> >>chips where chars, shorts, ints, and wchars are all 32 bits. Isn't it
> >>awesome that the C standard supports that?
> >Is there an actual, real, working C compiler that has char sized as
> >anything but 8 bits?? This one thing alone would kill, oh, 99% of all C
> >code?
> 
> Yes. Those chips exist, and there are Standard C compilers for them.
> But every bit of C code compiled for them has to be custom rewritten
> for it.

Interesting. How would D fare in that kind of environment, I wonder? I
suppose it shouldn't be a big deal, since you have to custom rewrite
everything anyways -- just use int32 throughout.


T

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