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Re: [tree-ssa] Computed gotos


On 06-Jul-2003, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> I slightly misspoke.  C90 does not require sizeof(void*) <= sizeof(long).
> What C90 does require is that sizeof(size_t) <= sizeof(long).  On a
> machine with a flat address space, this implies that 
> sizeof(void*) <= sizeof(long)

No, it doesn't.  It's OK for a C implementation to e.g. have a flat 4G
address space but to not permit individual objects larger than 64K.

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