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From: R!ch <richardt@uk.sun.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 11:00:16 +0000
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca>
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On 6 Dec 1996, Curt Sampson wrote:
> BTW, long is CPU-dependent, not OS-dependent. I run NetBSD on an
> i386, a Sun 3/60, a Sparc and an alpha, the first three use 32-bit
> longs, the last 64-bit longs.
Just to be pedantic, 'long' is compiler dependant, not CPU dependant.
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R!ch
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