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From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sleep-complexity
Date: Mon,  9 May 2005 16:10:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d19050509131046f70ea1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505091645.j49Gji1d001933@ducky.net>

I'm out of date?  RedHat still doesn't *work* on the alpha?!

I don't know what the *right thing* is but shipping code that
compiles but doesn't work ain't it.

brucee

> Wow, you're a little out of date.
> 
> The *BSDs and Linux did the Right Thing: on Alpha and AMD64
> (the two flavors of which I have personal knowledge) "long"
> is 64 bits.
> 
> So the vast corpus of software that has been ported to
> 64-bit *BSD and Linux systems is now free of the assumption
> that sizeof (int) == sizeof (long).
> 
> There is still a pervasive assumption that ints are 32 bits.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-09 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-08 12:03 Christoph Lohmann
2005-05-08 12:51 ` Sergey Reva
2005-05-08 16:50   ` Russ Cox
2005-05-08 17:28     ` Dan Cross
2005-05-08 18:56       ` jmk
2005-05-08 19:21         ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-08 20:54           ` Charles Forsyth
2005-05-08 21:06             ` Charles Forsyth
2005-05-08 22:40         ` Dan Cross
2005-05-08 22:59           ` geoff
2005-05-09  7:28             ` Richard Miller
2005-05-09 13:14             ` Brantley Coile
2005-05-09 16:45             ` Mike Haertel
2005-05-09 20:10               ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2005-05-09 22:46                 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-05-09  7:41           ` David Tolpin
2005-05-08 21:12       ` Charles Forsyth
2005-05-09 13:29         ` Nigel Roles
2005-05-09 14:03           ` Charles Forsyth
2005-05-10 17:09         ` boyd, rounin
2005-05-10 17:15           ` jmk
2005-05-10 18:34             ` boyd, rounin
2005-05-10 18:39               ` rog
2005-05-10 19:27               ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-05-10 21:02                 ` David Leimbach
2005-05-10 21:20                   ` Bruce Ellis

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