D design problem on platforms with <32 bit pointer width (page 3)

On Sunday, 20 August 2023 at 19:15:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > To be clear, my proposal would mean that size_t would be an alias for ushort, and ptrdiff_t would be an alias for short. Most 16 bit machines use 32 bit sized size_t (m68k). The 16 bit size_t of x86 real mode is an anomaly.

August 25, 2023

Re: D design problem on platforms with <32 bit pointer width

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On Friday, 25 August 2023 at 17:01:38 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:

On Sunday, 20 August 2023 at 19:15:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

To be clear, my proposal would mean that size_t would be an alias for ushort, and ptrdiff_t would be an alias for short.

Most 16 bit machines use 32 bit sized size_t (m68k). The 16 bit size_t of x86 real mode is an anomaly.

Maybe. But in this thread we mean 16-bit as the pointer size. In fact the platform I'm experimenting in is actually 8-bit with 16-bit pointers: AVR microcontroller.

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