Re: Access to a ridiculous computer? :-D
- From: Randy Howard <randyhoward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:27:25 GMT
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:11:48 -0600, Tomás Ó hÉilidhe wrote
(in article <Xns9A18EBF80CB1Etoelavabitcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
Has anyone here got access to a ridiculous computer? Something like:
CHAR_BIT == 9
PADDING_BITS(int) != 0
NUMBER_SYSTEM == SIGN_MAGNITUDE
Null pointer bit pattern == All ones
I'm writing some fully-portable code and would love to actually compile it
for, and test it on, a very strange machine :-D
Or does anyone know of a particular machine I could get my hands on very
cheaply just for playing around with, something very strange which I can
get a compliant C89 compiler for? An old supercomputer perhaps? The main
thing I'd want is a strange value for CHAR_BIT, but I'd be ecstatic if the
integer types had padding aswell!
There was a DS9K for sale on ebay last week, but somebody snapped it
up.
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