From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 8 17:30:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FD037B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f690UOM79576 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD99C3811; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Type differences In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:30:24 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010709003024.CD99C3811@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 wrote: > 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. And remember that i386 can be compiled fir IP32L64 so that long == 64 bit. Our i386 definitions have token support for that.. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message