Re: Guidelines for instruction set design?

gmt@cs.arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend) wrote:
>
>If you want to avoid headaches, stay compatible with these features
>of modern systems that are so common we take them for granted:
>
> individually addressable characters
> 8-bit characters


You mean bytes. Characters don't fit in bytes.


> ASCII character set


You need to be agnostic about character set. ASCII has been obsolete
for decades. Some code uses wide characters (UTF-32, or (brokenly)
UTF-16 etc.), and some uses multibyte characters (UTF-8 or ISO-2022 etc.).


Tony.
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