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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:49:44 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Building new kernel.
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> 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.

by "work" you mean not generate an out-of-range
memory access nor not produce unexpected values?

- erik