Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
To   : All
From : John Aldridge
Date : Fri Aug 30 2024 14:28:06

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.

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John

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