On 24/08/2015 11:28 AM, Lars Rohwedder wrote:
> I worked on such platform, not a PDP-11 (I am too young for that) but an
> awkward embedded DSP chip:
>
> http://roker.spamt.net/c++/datatypes_c55x.png
>
> It was very annoying to do C++ on that, e.g. file I/O and std::string
> didn't work as I expected. :-(

I saw an FAQ page somewhere that had examples of systems where the size 
of a pointer really does change depending on what it points to.

I imagine trying to do C on a Harvard architecture machine would be 
"interesting" for exactly this reason. (And I gather that's quite 
popular in DSP chips...)

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