Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:02:34 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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.
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