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From: rickg@eng.sun.com (Richard Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 28 Nov 1996 07:33:40 -0800
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   From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
   Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
   Date: 27 Nov 1996 15:51:17 -0800
   Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA

   casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:

   >And it can be claimed, C standard in hand, that there cannot be an integral
   >type > long.

   That claim isn't true for Solaris, since it has `long long'.

   While we're on the subject, when will Solaris migrate to the right way
   of doing things: int = 32 bits, long = 64?  Perhaps this will be
   another set of ifdefs in the Solaris 2.7 include files (:-)?


A 64-bit version of Solaris might be "LP64" (i.e. longs and
pointers are 64-bit), as it seems to have become industry the
standard (except for Hal, anyway).


rick



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	64-bit Linkers, Libs & Executables
	SunSoft, Inc.

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