Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
To   : druck
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Wed Aug 28 2024 23:59:42

On 28/08/2024 21:29, druck wrote:
> On 28/08/2024 00:30, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:36:18 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:
>>
>>> On 27/08/2024 05:31, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:06:52 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:
>>>>> Win32 is the name of the API.
>>>>
>>>> Why is it not “Win64”?
>>>
>>> The 64bit version is the same API compiled for 64bit instead of 32bit.
>>
>> That’s the trouble. It hasn’t really adapted to the availability as
>> standard of 64-bit integers, for example.
>>
>> Compare the POSIX APIs, where they were careful to use generic types like
>> “size_t” and “time_t”, so that the same code could be compiled,
>> unchanged,
>> to work on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Not something Windows
>> code can manage.
>
> You can do this on Windows too, but they had to bastardise their C
> compiler for people that hadn't. It's the only one that on a 64 bit
> platform that has long as 32 bits.
>
> Windows:-
>
> int=32 bits, long=32 bits, long long=64 bits
>
> Everyone else in the bloody world:-
>
> int=32 bits, long=64 bits, long long=64 bits
>
> ---druck
>

The original PDP on which C was written had int 16 bits and long 32 bits
K & R specifically said that no size should be inferred for int. It was
the length of a native word on the machines


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