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Date:      Tue, 13 Jan 1998 22:39:23 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), brian@Awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New typedefs in sys/types.h 
Message-ID:  <199801132239.WAA10230@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:56:07 %2B1100." <199801130158.RAA08540@hub.freebsd.org> 

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> > > 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.

As does OpenBSD/Alpha, and I believe NetBSD/Alpha.  Nobody's been 
brave/stupid enough to make sizeof(int) != 4 yet !

And of course, the `other' argument is that we need new format types 
for the printf/scanf family.  Otherwise we have to cast any type of a 
specific size (say int32_t) to a (long long) just to be sure :-|

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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