Re: [GD-General] meaning of sizeof(int) on all plateform

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:24:45 -0700 
Evan Robinson <ev...@en...> wrote:

> If you are trying to make sure that your code will run equally
> efficiently on *all platforms* and *all compilers*, you are
> (probably=20 wasting your time) probably best off relying on "int" and
> "void *" and not worrying about how they match to the platform until
> you have a=20 specific platform and compiler combination in mind.

If you are going that route, also make sure that you're not assuming
that the local system has a flat memory model, that pointers are simple
integral types, that two pointers which have different internal
bit-patterns are necessarily unequal (they can be), that the comparison
of two pointers not from the same allocation buffer is valid (its not),
and that NULL is all bits zero at run time (it may not be).

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