Re: ****tability: Harmony between PC and microcontroller

Tomás Ó hÉilidhe wrote:

> 
> I'll try to summarise this as best I can, as my last thread wasn't
> very to-the-point:
> 
> The C Standard says the following two things:
> 
> * int is the natural integer type for the system.
> * int must be at least 16-Bit.
> 
> Now the problem here is that these two criteria conflict if the
> natural type for the system is in fact 8-Bit, which is the case with
> many microcontrollers today.

That just means that those microcontrollers aren't a natural fit
to C, so programmers writing looks-like-C for them need to be
aware that natural-C idioms might not work as nicely.

I don't see a problem here. 

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