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Re: autoconf for type sizes
- To: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: autoconf for type sizes
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:36:52 +0000
- cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-To: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
zackw@Stanford.EDU said:
> I suppose the question is whether there ever was a K+R C
> implementation on a machine with 9- or 7-bit bytes.
Useless information from the archives:
According to K&R (first edition) the Honeywell 6000 had 9-bit bytes; and
the preface says that C was available on it.
R.