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Date:      09 Jul 2001 01:51:10 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Type differences
Message-ID:  <xzphewnou8h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <xzpbsmvqe73.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <xzpbsmvqe73.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes:
> What's the idea here?  off_t is the exact same size and signedness on
> both platforms, so why not use the same definition for both?  And why
> make size_t an int on i386 but a long on alpha, when on both these
> platforms int and long are identical?

Umm, diregard the size_t bit - I thought the Alpha was ILP64, but it's
I32LP64.  It would still be possible to change size_t to unsigned long
on the i386, though.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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