C bitfields guarantees

[Timon Gehr]

On 7/5/24 18:35, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> Consider also that the C standard does not specify the size of a 'char'.

D does specify it.

> There are C compilers for special CPUs that have different char sizes - 
> notably 32 bit chars for some DSP processors, and 10 bit chars for the 
> CPU on a Mattel Intellivision game computer. C on a PDP-10 has 36 bit 
> ints, too! and 18 bit shorts.
> 
> I can pretty much guarantee that all C code developed on a conventional 
> CPU will fail to work on those machines.
> 
> But so what. When you port to a diverse machine, you expect such problems.

Well, this is the D newsgroup.