On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 11:24:58PM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:40:24PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Michael Meissner wrote:
> > > long since dead, it is kind of hard to change for 32-bit land (obviously 64 bit
> > > land will have an different ABI).
> >
> > That is the crux of the matter.... In the PPC arch, size_t is
> > unconditionally the same whether you have a 32-bit or 64-bit procesor...
>
> As far as I know, the 64-bit ppc compiler is still in development. Yes, size_t
> probably needs to be unsigned long for 64-bit targets, but it must be unsigned
> int for 32-bit targets, or PPC Linux has to use a different ABI....
I have no idea what I'm talking about, but shouldn't an int be 64 bit on a
64 bit processor?
Q
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