reading legacy floppy disks

[James Knott]

John Macdonald wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:33:58PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
>> The sizes of char/short/int/long are not required to be any particular
>> size in the standard.  If memory serves, the relationship needs to
>> hold that:
>>
>>  sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
>>
>> But having 8 bit ints *is* consistent with...
>>
>>    8 <= 8 <= 8 <= 16
> 
> But it is not consistant with the other rule about the
> size of an int - an int has to have enough bits to
> hold a pointer.  For any machine with more than 256
> addressable units, an 8-bit int doesn't work.
> 

As I mentioned in another wrong, I was probably wrong about the actual
int sizes, but was correct in that the sizes were different between
Turbo C on DOS and Borland C on OS/2.

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