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Date:      Sun, 21 Dec 1997 17:03:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, "Robert S. Sciuk" <rob@ControlQ.com>, Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Data types (was: Re: FAQ FreeBSD-Sparc [frequent posting])
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.971221170215.11470I-100000@cynic.portal.ca>
In-Reply-To: <19971221184811.36599@lemis.com>

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On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:

> > My feeling is that we should go with LP-64...

Yes, this is what we use on NetBSD/alpha.

> This sounds like a good a priori approach, though it will cause
> problems where people assume sizeof (int) == sizeof (void *).

You bet. You get used to fixing those after a while. Just like you
get used to fixing alignment problems. :-)

cjs

Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca	   Info at http://www.portal.ca/
Internet Portal Services, Inc.	   Through infinite mist, software reverberates
Vancouver, BC  (604) 257-9400	   In code possess'd of invisible folly.




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