Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:56:07 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, tlambert@primenet.com, brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New typedefs in sys/types.h Message-ID: <199801130158.RAA08540@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199801130027.RAA25349@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 13, 98 00:27:09 am
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In some mail from Terry Lambert, sie said: > > > > Technically, long should be 64 bits because sizeof(int) is <= sizeof(long); > > > but just as technically, a 64 bit int meets the "register size test" > > > and the "single bus cycle test" for "int-ness" (the same test that > > > *should* have made compiler writers use 16 bit int's on 68000/68010 > > > chips). > > [ ... ] > > > i believe i goes like... > > > > long = 64 bits > > int = 32 bits > > This is, of course, just the bogosity I was trying to avoid. Well, FWIW, apparently Digital Unix has int = 32 and long = 64.
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