Re: 64 bit or 32 bit
From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 04/07/04
- Next message: Måns Rullgård: "Re: 64 bit or 32 bit"
- Previous message: gopan: "why Linux does not make use of GDT entry 2 in IA32"
- In reply to: Villy Kruse: "Re: 64 bit or 32 bit"
- Next in thread: Måns Rullgård: "Re: 64 bit or 32 bit"
- Reply: Måns Rullgård: "Re: 64 bit or 32 bit"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Date: 07 Apr 2004 13:37:10 GMT
On 2004-04-07, Villy Kruse <vek@station02.ohout.pharmapartners.nl> wrote:
>> There is no relationship required between the size of integral
>> types and the size of pointers. That's how Microsoft can get
>> away with sizeof(void*)==8 but sizeof(int)==4 in Win64. A
>> mistake, in my opinion, but once again they didn't check with
>> me first.
>
> A mistake alsof implemented by among others ny Sun
> Microsystems. Anyway, for several reasons we sometimes do
> need a 4 byte interger type so if short is 2 bytes and int 8
> bytes then the 4 byte integer type will be missing.
unsigned long short aFourByteVariable;
;)
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want you to
at MEMORIZE the collected
visi.com poems of EDNA ST VINCENT
MILLAY... BACKWARDS!!
- Next message: Måns Rullgård: "Re: 64 bit or 32 bit"
- Previous message: gopan: "why Linux does not make use of GDT entry 2 in IA32"
- In reply to: Villy Kruse: "Re: 64 bit or 32 bit"
- Next in thread: Måns Rullgård: "Re: 64 bit or 32 bit"
- Reply: Måns Rullgård: "Re: 64 bit or 32 bit"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Relevant Pages
|
