Extreme Integers – Doom from Below

Posted by manchoz on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:30AM
from the luckyresistor.me dept.

https://luckyresistor.me/2022/09/04/extreme-integers-doom-from-below/

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Re:Extreme Integers – Doom from Below by sitzkrieg on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @10:01PM (#32745550)

> If you are still using C, please move on to a more modern language, like Rust, Go or C++.

i laughed out loud at this very 'thoughtful' line in the preface

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Re:Extreme Integers – Doom from Below by pestatije on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @11:24PM (#32746009)

Yeah, they are saying it like it has been deprecated or something.

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Re:Extreme Integers – Doom from Below by SteveMoody73 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:02AM (#32749001)

There are still many micro controllers, especially memory constrained or less common devices, that there isn't an option beyond C for them. C++ is sometimes an option but even then it can sometimes be a cut-down version of C++.

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Re:Extreme Integers – Doom from Below by sitzkrieg on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:54PM (#32758253)

yea that is exactly where i live and why it got my goat

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Re:Extreme Integers – Doom from Below by kosma on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @05:38PM (#32743550)

Let's not forget about unusual char sizes. The popular DSP platform TMS320 has sizeof(char) == sizeof(int), and both are 1. How? Because both are 16-bit, and by definition sizeof(char) == 1.

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Re:Extreme Integers – Doom from Below by justsaying-hi on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:04PM (#32742510)

This is very read-worthy, thanks to the OP

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