Sujet : Re: [OT] SPARC (was Re: The integral type 'byte')
De : janis_papanagnou+ng (at) *nospam* hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 28. Mar 2025, 14:20:56
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On 28.03.2025 13:56, Michael S wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:20:35 +0100
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Just to understand; do you consider the 68k to be an "8-bitter"?
No, 68K was sold as "16-bit", but by modern use of the terms it is
32-bit CPU.
Thanks for clarifying.
IIRC, I was certainly addressing and manipulating 8, 16, and 32 bit
entities with it. But it annoyed me to have a restriction that some
data manipulations required a 2-byte (or 4-byte?) alignment of data
(as far as memory serves). - Probably justifiable with it being a
"16-bitter". - Ah, well, anyway, never mind.
Janis