Re: C: compare character

From: Martijn Lievaart (m_at_remove.this.part.rtij.nl)
Date: 12/25/03


Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:49:22 +0100

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 08:55:47 -0500, Jeff Schwab wrote:

> Martijn Lievaart wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 10:25:26 +0000, Guy Harrison wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Shame. I was hoping you knew of one. Methinks we need a system that faults
>>>on loading a bad address register, rather than making use of it.
>>
>>
>> We could write one, virtual machines are not exactly new. The Java VM
>> comes to mind as a virtual machine where this probably doesn't work. But
>> real hardware? I have been told it exists, but the real examples I knew
>> from books are obsolete to say the kindest.
>>
> What about MMIX, or another "teaching" architecture? Have any of them
> been put in silicon?

Not that I know of, but there was are Lisp machines if strange CPUs is
what you are after :-)

M4



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