Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:09:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Subject: Re: extreme mem usage under amd64 arch ? Message-ID: <200604081009.k38A9FwJ094512@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20060407212254.GE72485@funkthat.com>
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John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote this message on Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 23:16 +0200: > > John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote: > > > Not quite... FreeBSD/amd64 like all? the other arches are LP64... > > > that means longs and pointers are 64bits, while ints remain at 32bits... > > > > I think longs are 32 bits on /i386, and 64 bits on /amd64 > > (On /i386, "long longs" are 64 bits.) > > Sorry, I ment to write like all the other 64bit arches.... > ^^^^^ > > since i386 isn't 32bit, it isn't LP64, the same way arm or powerpc > isn't LP64... Oh, I see. Yes of course, you're right. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb." -- Steve Haflich, in comp.lang.c++
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