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Date: Mon,  9 May 2005 16:10:12 -0400
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
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I'm out of date?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 Wow, you're a little out of date.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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) =3D=3D sizeof (long).
>=20
> There is still a pervasive assumption that ints are 32 bits.