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On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 17:50 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:50, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Well Fudgecicles. Now you guys have gotten me aaaaall confused. Are > > there cpus out there (in generic linux land) that have 16 bit integers > > or not? 16 bit integers existing in a 32 bit cpu OS seems like an alien > > concept to me, but I'm not a twisted cpu designer... I'll just go with > > the flow ;-) > > All supported architectures on linux currently use 32bits for int. That should > give you 2.1 seconds in nanoseconds. Sorry my legacy of remembering when ints > were 8 bits coloured me. Well that's a relief. I was getting all kinds of frazzled trying to imagine the kernel not exploding on such a cpu. -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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