From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: BAD strupr, BAD getw
Date: 27 Aug 2000 17:30:33 GMT
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Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comremovebullcr_p> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:46:52 -0400, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>>I've seen machines where char, short, and long are all 32 bits.

> If char is 32 bits, then text files and HTML files must be _huge_ on
> those machines ;-)

Not necessarily. You can make use of the freedom given to the
implementor of an ANSI/ISO standard C compiler to store each char of a
file opened in text mode as 8 bits, expanding to 32 bits transparently
inside the <stdio.h> functions. Just because a char is 32 bits inside
a C program doesn't mean it has to be 32 bits on disk, too.

OTOH, the typical everything-is-32bits-wide hardware of these days is
found in embedded systems, which hardly, if ever have such 'highlevel'
features as a file system :-)
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