Re: PR1ME C compiler sources

arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:57:19 -0000 (UTC)

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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:57:19 -0000 (UTC)
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>[I'd still be interested in hearing what any of them did for character
>pointers. -John]


ISTR that the GT C compiler had char as a 16-bit quantity, I guess
for this reason. That was V-Mode code. Supposedly the newer
I-Mode instruction set supported addressing 8 bit units, but all
the stuff we did was in V-Mode.
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Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com


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