From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 16bit C compilers
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:37:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C70E771.C70AD177@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C6E021B.3F8856E0@null.net>
"Douglas A. Gwyn" wrote:
> 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.
True, but that code is broken and should be fixed.
That was probably the rational behind the choice Digital made
with the Alpha, which I think was completely wrong. I don't
know who made the decision [CRL?], but I argued against it at
the time.
Porting ULTRIX to it would have been pretty sporty, but they
chose OSF.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-18 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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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
2002-02-18 13:14 forsyth
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
2002-02-15 14:08 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-02-15 13:59 Russ Cox
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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