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Date:      Sun, 5 Jun 2005 16:25:13 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Matt Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Martin <nakal@nurfuerspam.de>
Subject:   Re: Optimizing libc/string for amd64(?)
Message-ID:  <20050605062513.GB31558@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <000701c5696f$0dee3b10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <42A242D1.4000002@nurfuerspam.de> <000701c5696f$0dee3b10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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On Sat, 2005-Jun-04 21:36:53 -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote:
>It would probably be better to use int64_t and int32_t instead of long/int,
>in order to make the intention more obvious.

The intent is to use the widest, efficiently supported type.  This is
'long' on all of our architectures.  int64_t has to be simulated
on i386 and is therefore not an idea choice.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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