Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 01:12:30 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/arm/include ansi.h src/sys/i386/include ansi.h src/sys/powerpc/include ansi.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105190101460.26239-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010517225829.B68924@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, 17 May 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:32:21AM -0400, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > My apologies, afaik there's some convention IPL integer-pointer-long? time_t needs to be int32_t if "int" is larger than 32 bits. > Yes. > > > Basically some 64 bit archs _can_ have 64 bit "int" most people don't > > do that though for storage reasons. > > Yes, that and the assumption that int is 32 bits is stronger than a > pointer can fit in an int. W/o 32-bit int, it would be very hard to do > some things as a short could still legally be 16-bits (as the notion you > refer to don't state the sizeof short). According to wollman, POSIX (.1g) will require at least 8-bit chars (char == uint8_t). Of course, the compiler can always fake it except for accesses to magic (device) memory. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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