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I don't believe Python would really ever work on a platform with non-8-bit-bytes, I believe there are way too much assumptions *everywhere*. You can program in C on such a platform, yes, but not that sure about Python.
And on 8-bit-byte platfomrs, there is no large model with 16-bit pointers anywhere. There just are not enough bits that you could have multiple 64k byte-addressable segments that are addressed with 16-bit pointers.
It might be that some obscure platform in the past would have had 128k memory, with large pointers, 2 allocatable 64k segments, >16 bit char pointer and 16-bit object pointers pointing to even bytes, but I doubt you'd be really porting *Python 3* to such a platform, basically we're talking about something like Commodore 128 here. |
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2016-08-01 06:18:05 | ztane | set | recipients:
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2016-08-01 06:18:05 | ztane | set | messageid: <1470032285.44.0.750853220573.issue1621@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2016-08-01 06:18:05 | ztane | link | issue1621 messages |
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