From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Nov 22 14:17:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646CB37B416; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:17:50 -0800 (PST) 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 fAMMHoM56444; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2202138CC; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Doug Rabson , "David O'Brien" , ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Background fsck considered harmful... In-Reply-To: <20011121223520.B577@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:17:50 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011122221750.2202138CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:43:15AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On PS2, gcc uses 32bit ints, 64bit longs and 32bit pointers - what is the > > define for that? I guess I32L64P32 might be right. This isn't completely > > academic since NetBSD and Linux both boot on PS2. > > My guess would be L64. > > BTW: What's the origin of these acronyms/defines? It came from cpu/compiler terminology. They not suitable to be used #defines, and as I understand it, are not specified to be used as #defines anywhere because of the permutations problem. 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-ia64" in the body of the message