Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 02:06 am, Grant Edwards wrote:

> It sure was an education the first I wrote C code for
> a machine where
> 
> 1 == sizeof char == sizeof int == sizeof long == sizeof float == sizeof
> double
> 
> All were 32 bits.


Does that imply that on that machine 1 byte = 32 bits?

I don't suppose you remember the name of the machine do you?


> Writing protocol code that dealt with the outside world via a serial
> port was _painful_.



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Steve
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