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From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:40:30 +0100
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:28:06 +0100
John Aldridge wrote:
> In article <20240829191334.570e88c7507598ffe5b28d87@eircom.net>,
> steveo@eircom.net says...
> > > > Portable code should only rely on the standards not
> > > > implementations, some very weird possibilities are legal within the
> > > > standard.
> > >
> > > Heh, yes. I worked for several years on a machine where a null
> > > pointer wasn't all bits zero, and where char* was a different size to
> > > any other pointer.
> >
> > That rings vague bells, what was it ?
>
> Prime. It was word, not byte, addressed, so a char* had to be bigger.
Thank you, that was indeed the bell it rang. I only heard about it,
never met it.
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