reading legacy floppy disks

Howard Gibson hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org
Sat Sep 9 23:10:33 UTC 2006


On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:43:20 -0400
Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Don't 8 bit integers violate the C standard?  I thought it required
> integer to be at least 16 bits.

Lennart,

    Would eight bit integers even work?  I recall running C Power on the Commodore_64, and its integers were sixteen bit.  So were its long integers.  

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