Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })

Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> writes:

Am 10.06.2025 um 15:01 schrieb Tim Rentsch:
>

Consider the following program:
>
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <string.h>
>
     typedef unsigned long long ULL;
     ULL hello = ((((0ULL +'o' <<8) +'l' <<8) +'l' <<8) +'e' <<8) + 'h';
>
     int
     main(){
        printf( "length is %zu\n", strlen( (char*)&hello ) );
        return  0;
     }
>
On a little endian machine (with CHAR_BIT == 8) this program works,
and TTBOMK conforms to both the letter and the spirit of the C
standard, without any undefined behavior (on that platform).  Yet
there are no arrays in sight, and certainly no array objects.

>
There are not much remaining big-endian architectures today.

 Ethernet is big-endian at the byte level and little-endian
at the bit level.