Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:44:38 +0200 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo |
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:02:34PM +0000, you [Alan Cox] claimed: > > If the PPC etc. have 32-bit ints then I stand corrected, but I thought the > > compiler ports on those machines used the native register size same as > > everybody else. > > Nobody I am aware of uses 64bit int default types on a 64bit platform. Its > a waste of memory, bus bandwidth and instruction bandwidth. In almost > all cases a 32bit int is quite adequate and since size_t can be 64bit when > int is 32bit life works out nicely.
I *think* long is 32 bit on Windows XP 64bit, though. I imagine they went with this hack to ensure backward compability or something. Can't tell for sure since the IA64 box lying around hasn't got a bootable Windows on it yet, just linux :).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/win64/64bitwin_4d0z.asp?frame=true
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