From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 12 12:27:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA12073 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:27:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA12063 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:27:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA12235; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:27:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:27:40 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9603122027.AA12235@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys conf.h In-Reply-To: <199603121946.GAA02539@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199603121946.GAA02539@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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