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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:48:47 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Building new kernel.
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> it will work perfectly if the -T flag is not
> given (since there is a deep assumption
> in plan 9 that int == long).  but i the

not exactly. it will work on most Unix systems and
on Plan 9 without -T because nothing checks
external types across object module boundaries.  the linker/loader in both systems
will allocate in BSS the largest size seen for a given symbol,
so it doesn't matter whether int == long or not.