From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA20394 for caml-redist; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:59:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA00225; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:41:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA11146; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:41:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from champlain (champlain.cs.rice.edu [128.42.3.106]) by cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA25556; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:41:25 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul A. Steckler" To: "Xavier Leroy" , "Max Skaller" Cc: Subject: RE: what does "32-bit integer" mean? Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:41:25 -0500 Message-ID: <000d01bfb05f$0ba83d20$6a032a80@cs.rice.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2232.26 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <20000427101749.40550@pauillac.inria.fr> Sender: weis >This reminds me of a nice compiler book from the late 60s, whose title >is something like "Compilation for digital computers". I believe the book you refer to is "Compiler Construction for Digital Computers", by David Gries, copyright 1971. I have a copy on my shelf, leftover from my office's previous tenant. It looks like it was printed using an IBM Selectric typeball. :-) -- Paul