Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing To : John Aldridge From : Ahem A Rivet's Shot Date : Fri Aug 30 2024 14:40:30 On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:28:06 +0100 John Aldridge wrote: > 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. Thank you, that was indeed the bell it rang. I only heard about it, never met it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/ For forms of government let fools contest Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .