[Aldor-l] Portability

[Stephen Watt]

THis is good what you are doing.   Aldor used to run on FreeBSD about
10 years ago, but the port was not kept current.   What is not working
now?    -- Stephen

2008/8/16  <pip88nl at gmail.com>:
> I believe the documentation imposes the following two constraints on
> datatype sizes:
>
> 1.    sizeof (long)  > sizeof (int)
>   or sizeof (long) == sizeof (int) and sizeof (int) > sizeof (int)
>
> 2.    sizeof (char *) == sizeof (short)
>   or sizeof (char *) == sizeof (long)
>
> This means that:
>
> - sizeof (long)   >= 2
> - sizeof (int)    >= 1
> - sizeof (short)  >= 1
> - sizeof (char *) >= 1 (may be 1 in medium and smaller memory models)
>
> Are these really all the constraints I have? I *need* some test machines
> for this stuff :-\. Aldor's code seems to want to be almost as portable
> as C itself. That's funny, because it doesn't even run on FreeBSD :(. I
> don't want to remove the current portability, though. At this point, I
> just want to remove obsolete compiler-brokenness-checks.
>
> Pippijn
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