From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 8 16:51:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7A237B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 16:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA54334; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:51:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Type differences References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 Jul 2001 01:51:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > What's the idea here? off_t is the exact same size and signedness on > both platforms, so why not use the same definition for both? And why > make size_t an int on i386 but a long on alpha, when on both these > platforms int and long are identical? Umm, diregard the size_t bit - I thought the Alpha was ILP64, but it's I32LP64. It would still be possible to change size_t to unsigned long on the i386, though. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message