BPTR
18-Sep-86 12:31:07
Sb: #33318-BPTR
Fm: Dave Haynie/C128 Land 76703,2047
To: Darrel Schneider 73267,732
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BCPL it seems was originally implemented on machines that were linerly word
addressable, versus the liner byte addessability of the 68000. SO if you
use BCPL on a byte addressable machine, you've got to set up the compiler
to produce a model of a word addressable machine in order for BCPL code to
work. It'd be transparent from your BCPL environment but not from C or any
other more flexable language (C not being tied to a particular memory
organization). Had it been written in C you wouldn't have any of this BPTR
stuff to worry about… -Dave