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From: schoff@cadtroy.UUCP (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: C Compiler Benchmarks
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 13:42:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 28 13:42:27 1985
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> 2.  Bill points out that the Megamax compiler uses 16 bit integers, while
>     his compiler uses 32 bit integers.  When the Consulair compiler used
>     16 bit integers in the sieve program the run time with his old compiler
>     was 6.3 seconds.
>     
>     This is an excellent point.  I neglected to notice whether the other
>     compilers used 16 or 32-bit integers.  Someone told me that the C
>     standard stipulates that an integer's worth of bits must be able
>     to span the entire address space.  I don't know about this.  Can
>     someone comment?

Hmmm,  the 68000 inside the MAC has a 24bit address space.  A AT&T
68010 UNIX distribution C compiler believes that ints are 16bits.

marty
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