Re: exotic CPU hardware

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 3:49 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> 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
> machines contain Xeon processors.

I think the closet you will come nowadays for commodity hardware is
segmented memory on i386. sizeof(size_t) is different when compared to
modern memory models. If you are not targeting a DOS machine then you
probably will not experience a problem.

Jeff