Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:11:45 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@lcs.mit.edu Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys conf.h Message-ID: <199603122111.IAA05823@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> [using u_longs where u_ints are sufficient] >> It doesn't help at runtime, and may waste space and time. >For any sane architecture, that seems unlikely. What might happen on >insane architectures doesn't bear thinking about. Every 32-bit system should have relatively slow 64-bit longs implemented in software and no long longs. The i386 architecture provides many examples where less commonly used types are inefficient. You have to think about it even though it is insane :-). Bruce
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