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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: technology discussion =?UTF-8?B?4oaS?= does the world need a
 "new" C ?
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:57:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 21:34:29 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:

> On many platforms, if _Alignof(type) is less than the word size, then a
> C pointer to that type is implemented as the combination of the machine
> address of the correct word, combined with an offset within that word of
> the first byte of that object.

Which is a terrific idea, except it cannot be carried to its logical 
conclusion (addressing of arbitrarily-aligned dynamically-defined 
bitfields) because of the requirement in the C spec that the size of a 
“byte” be at least 8 bits.