Re: C++ integral types on 64-bit OS (IA64)

From: Dan Pop (Dan.Pop_at_cern.ch)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: 8 Apr 2004 11:09:48 GMT

In <4074549C.6D26974E@daimi.au.dk> Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> writes:

>Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
>>
>> However, it has
>> CHAR_BITS = 32
>
>That sounds nice. No need for all those weird
>encodings. If everybody would do like that the
>world would be a nicer place. Of course we would
>have some incompatibilities during the transition,
>but it couldn't be any worse than now?

Less nice than it looks: it's a freestanding implementation for embedded
control programming, devoid of most of the goodies you expect from
a hosted implementation for a PC, workstation or server.

It's done this way simply because the processor can only manipulate 32-bit
words, so the implementation's byte is 32-bit too.

Dan 

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Dan Pop
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