From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 16bit C compilers
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:14:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020218130438.DFFFB19A7F@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
>>A C implementor might well choose "int" to be 32 bits even
>>on a machine where 64 bits would be more natural, in order
>>to ease importing of code written sloppily on a so-called
>>32-bit platform.
or perhaps just to avoid wasting space on even more zero bits,
especially if there is little or no cost associated with the use of 32
bits instead of 64.
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2002-02-18 13:14 forsyth [this message]
2002-02-20 10:08 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-20 17:59 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-02-21 9:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-02-21 10:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-21 18:06 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-21 22:46 ` George Michaelson
2002-02-22 9:58 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-22 10:58 ` George Michaelson
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2002-02-22 16:15 anothy
2002-02-20 10:55 forsyth
[not found] <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
2002-02-18 17:43 ` Richard Miller
2002-02-18 18:14 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-02-15 14:08 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-02-15 13:59 Russ Cox
2002-02-15 13:57 Russ Cox
2002-02-15 14:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-18 10:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-02-18 11:37 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-15 12:30 forsyth
2002-02-15 12:14 forsyth
2002-02-15 12:21 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-15 9:41 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-02-15 9:28 nigel
2002-02-14 16:15 steve.simon
2002-02-15 9:55 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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