Re: exotic CPU hardware

2020-12-05 Thread Paul Eggert
In rereading that change, I noticed that there's already a section "Target Platforms" in the Gnulib manual that's a better home for the new material. I installed the attached patch to move it there. >From 2aae1301ef698a189d02e842b344841d83b5c352 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: S

Re: exotic CPU hardware

2020-12-05 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/4/20 12:47 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: The currently sold Unisys ClearPath Dorado machines contain Xeon processors. They're Xeon processors but they come with Unisys-supplied firmware that emulate the older architectures, which means that C programs on these platforms should follow the old

Re: exotic CPU hardware

2020-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 3:49 PM Bruno Haible wrote: > > Paul Eggert wrote: > > update it to mention two current platforms where sizeof(size_t) == > > sizeof(ptrdiff_t) but index arithmetic does not behave in the usual way > > Are these *current* platforms? The currently sold Unisys ClearPath Dorado

Re: exotic CPU hardware

2020-12-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > update it to mention two current platforms where sizeof(size_t) == > sizeof(ptrdiff_t) but index arithmetic does not behave in the usual way Are these *current* platforms? The currently sold Unisys ClearPath Dorado machines contain Xeon processors. No one is manufacturing CP