Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:27:40 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys conf.h Message-ID: <9603122027.AA12235@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603121946.GAA02539@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199603121946.GAA02539@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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<<On Wed, 13 Mar 1996 06:46:25 +1100, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said: >> 32-bit int, 32-bit long, 32-bit pointer (all 32-bit systems) >> 32-bit int, 64-bit long, 64-bit pointer (Alpha) >> 64-bit int, 64-bit long, 64-bit pointer (Cray? ...will happen some day) > 64-bit int, 128-bit long, 96-bit pointer (? ...will happen some day) Doubtful. >> It works fine in the first case, and it avoids a GCC warning in the >> second case. Sounds like the right thing to me. > It doesn't help at runtime, and may waste space and time. For any sane architecture, that seems unlikely. What might happen on insane architectures doesn't bear thinking about. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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