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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Supersedes: <cancel.casper.32a29b95@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Date: 2 Dec 1996 10:04:25 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <casper.32a29b95@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57ik5l$12i$1@shade.twinsun.com> <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <casper.329d5a07@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57shkh$opf@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91068 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1644 comp.unix.internals:11395 peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <casper.329d5a07@mail.fwi.uva.nl>, >Casper H.S. Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl> wrote: >> Though I think HAL has made a different choice for it's 64 bitversion of >> Solaris, making both ints and longs 64 bits. >Ewwwww. That is SO ugly. Exactly. No "natural" 32 bit value, only __int32 as integral type fitting between short and int/long. In fairness to HAL, the draft SPARC V9 ABI at one point used those size definitions because it was "easier to prot to". But both the ugliness of that solution and the market place now dictate that people use "LP64" rather than ILP64. Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.