From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 16bit C compilers
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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:14:47 +0000
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>>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.