[Coco] FYI - 6809 GCC

John Hogerhuis jhoger at gmail.com
Wed May 10 22:33:53 EDT 2006


On 5/10/06, James Dessart <james at skwirl.ca> wrote:
>
> On 10-May-06, at 6:20 PM, John Hogerhuis wrote:
>
> > Almost no real-life code will work off the bat if int's are 8-bit. So
> > given that it seems like a strange decision. Unless the programmer is
> > more concerned with theory than practice, which happens from time to
> > time ;-)
>
> If I recall correctly, when Brian Dominy contacted me, he was more
> interested in writing new software. He's interested in new software
> for old pinball machines.
>

Yes I guess that makes sense. But for the purpose of new software, one
could just use unsigned char where applicable right?

-- John.



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