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		colejohnson66 on Sept 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prevent DoS by large int-str conversions Is it one of TI’s custom ISAs for their DSP line? The TMS430, for example, has a 16 bit char. That causes some unintuitive looking code to fight that.

AlotOfReading on Sept 8, 2022 [–]

No, it was with xap [1] chips. TI is also on my list of annoying chip vendors because they're one of the few companies still making big endian ARM chips, which should die in a fire.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAP_processor

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