[Info-vax] VMS process communication
Arne Vajhøj
arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Mar 13 15:46:15 EDT 2023
On 3/13/2023 3:17 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 3/13/2023 10:19 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> I really like C# where short, int and long are signed while
>> byte is unsigned - and one can pick ushort, uint, ulong and
>> sbyte when one want the other way.
>
> The problem with all of those is they are vague, and are defined
> differently on different HW and software. Precision is to be desired.
In C the types short, int and long are vaguely defined.
Not in C# and Java - there they are 16, 32 and 64 bit two's complement.
Only aspect left optional is big vs little endian.
Arne
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