|> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>:
|> > |> I'm not very worried about this. On modern machines int == long
|> >
|> > You mean alpha, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x68-64 are not modern machines?
|>
|> Well, S390 certainly isn't! :-)
s390x is the new 64 bit architecture.
|> If the PPC etc. have 32-bit ints then I stand corrected, but I thought the
|> compiler ports on those machines used the native register size same as
|> everybody else.
On all those architectures the ABI used on Linux has int == 32 bits and
long == 64 bits. LP64 is more usefull in most cases than ILP64.
Andreas.
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