Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!bet From: bet@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: C language problems -- maybe we should leave it be? Message-ID: <2173@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 10:11:18 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2173 Posted: Tue Mar 20 10:11:18 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 03:27:26 EST Lines: 24 C is an efficient, low-level language. It requires some sophistication from programmers, and doesn't coddle the user with run-time error checking and fantastically rich data types and operators. PL/I might be contrasted to C in this regard. A recent posting proposed that sizeof(int) must be at least as great as sizeof(char*), to preserve K&R "p1-p2" is of type "int" for p1 and p2 pointers to objects of the same size. There are many architectures on which sizeof(int)