From owner-cvs-all Fri May 18 8:14: 3 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1912137B424; Fri, 18 May 2001 08:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA11655; Sat, 19 May 2001 01:13:54 +1000 Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 01:12:30 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Alfred Perlstein , 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 In-Reply-To: <20010517225829.B68924@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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