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Date:      Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:40:55 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu
Subject:   Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???
Message-ID:  <37C74C37.72466A7C@3-cities.com>
References:  <19990828020123.C291@marder-1> <28437.935803761@localhost> <19990828023502.E291@marder-1>

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Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 06:29:21PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > > marder-1:/usr/marko{57}% ./a.out
> > > short == 2
> > > int == 4
> > > long == 4
> > > long long == 8
> > > marder-1:/usr/marko{57}%
> >
> > But on the Alpha:
> >
> > jkh@beast-> ./foo
> > short == 2
> > int == 4
> > long == 8
> > long long == 8
> >
> 
> Which is fair enough, given that Alpha is 64-bit. The original post
> implied that existing (32-bit) compilers had 64-bit longs (or a
> mode for 64-bit longs). man cc shows that this (and 64-bit ints)
> is only for MIPS systems and adds "These options don't work at
> present."

We went from a Cray to using an Alpha and there were several things
that Dec FORTRAN did. The most prominent besides the 64-bit floating
point operations was that you could mask (and, or, xor, and etc.)
64-bit integer values. This was something that was missing in 64-bit
longs on HP.

Kent

> 
> > - Jordan
> >
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