Re: Classpath build process and VM-specific issues

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Etienne Gagnon wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>
> > Okay, but ANS specifically does not allow you to do this subtraction.
> > Also, there is no guarantee that every pointer is representable as a
> > ptrdiff_t.  (6.5.6 Para 9, if you're interested)
>
>
> The point is: if your platform is one that does *not* have 8-bit chars 
> (!!!),

http://www.36bit.org/ for platforms where CHAR_BITS is 9.

And for some non-related fun, 
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/iseries/overview/faq_misc.html 
for a platform with 128 bit pointers.

cheers,
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