Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!amd!intelca!mipos3!pinkas From: pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: new standard for malloc() suggested Message-ID: <307@mipos3.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 12:03:39 EST Article-I.D.: mipos3.307 Posted: Mon Dec 15 12:03:39 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 23:23:43 EST References: <311@bms-at.UUCP> <1790@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 16 Keywords: why not? >PS: to iterate an earlier suggestion: let's REQUIRE that char, short, >int and long have a MINIMUM size of 8, 8, 16 and 32 bits respectively, >and perhaps that 'long' be large enough to hold a pointer to any type >(or at least the difference between two pointers whenever that difference >is meaningful) (only need 16 bits for THAT on an Intel chip :-) The last Intel chip to be able to guarantee that was the 8085. From the 8086/8088 and up, code could be compiled in the "large" memory model which required at least 20 bit to store, and could require up to 32 bits. -Israel -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: {amdcad,decwrl,hplabs,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel}!intelca!mipos3!pinkas ARPA: pinkas%mipos3.intel.com@relay.cs.net CSNET: pinkas%mipos3.intel.com