Re: Lint for microcontrollers

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:25:55 -0500, Jim McGinnis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:22:37 -0700, Alan Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:24:48 -0500, Jim McGinnis
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>programming for the TI 34010, which was a bit addressable graphics
>>>processor, and for which sizeof(char) was 8, not 1. 
>>
>>By definition, sizeof(char) is 1. CHAR_BIT could be 64, however.
>
>You are correct regarding what the standard says, but my point was
>that PC-Lint lets you do static checking even for compilers which
>_don't_ comply with the standard, as was the case for the TI compiler.

Interesting processor. I dug for some info, since I wasn't familiar
with it (though I remembered the associated graphic mode.) I suppose
all C bets are off, since it was developed before the standard.
Apparently they decided that sizeof would return the number of
addressable units in an object, and the 34010 was bit addressable.
Someone has done a gcc code generator for it, but I don't know how it
reports sizeof(char).

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Al Balmer
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