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SubjectRe: long long on 32-bit machines


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone happen to know if there are *any* 32-bit architectures (on
> which Linux runs) for which the ABI for a "long long" is different from
> passing two "longs" in the appropriate order, i.e. (hi,lo) for bigendian
> or (lo,hi) for littleendian?
>
> I'd like to switch klibc to use the 64-bit file ABI thoughout, but it's
> a considerable porting effort, and I'm trying to figure out how to best
> manage it.
>

I don't know how it is for GCC, but when using the Sun compiler, "long
long" for 32-bit is low-high, while "long long" (or just long) for
64-bit is high-low. This has been an annoyance to me. :)

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