From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9ab217670510011128j2ae263a2k@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 11:28:17 -0700 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Russ Cox Subject: Re: [9fans] 64-Bit programming model. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <32a656c20509300431j6ab02b7cm7512019149d45a59@mail.gmail.com> <32a656c20509301427v79705106ta3c169660f5d59b6@mail.gmail.com> <433DFDEC.9040301@lanl.gov> <9ab217670509302019h139a3d72j@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9354a9cc-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2005/10/1, Russ Cox : > > Though I don't necessarily agree with Jim if I understand him > > correctly. I don't think that providing interfaces to make code > > compilation on systems of different bit sizes promotes `a sloppy > > monoculture.' > > But the quote Jim found wasn't arguing for interfaces. > It was arguing for universal agreement on type sizes for > 64-bit systems. > > Russ In which case this is a misunderstanding on my part :) -D