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From: a...@bach.coe.neu.edu (Albert D. Cahalan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Alpha Linux
Date: 06 Sep 1994 16:38:15 GMT
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In-reply-to: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at's message of 6 Sep 1994 15:40:03 GMT

   >|> Alpha is making everything 64 bit clean and this will apply to the EISA
   >|> drivers.

   >Only if Linux on the Alpha will be a 64-bit-OS. 

   I sure hope it will be. Who wants a 32 bit OS on an Alpha?

   >If it will be, I hope
   >that they do not repeat the OSF/1 idiocy of having only 32-bit ints.

   Then you have to drop either the 16 bit or the 32 bit int type. Both
   options may make some people unhappy. The 32 bit int is a reasonable
   compromise. It also breaks all those programs which assume that a
   pointer and an int are just the same thing, which is a good thing IMHO.

Why drop one? 
16 bits = short int
32 bits = int
64 bits = long
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Albert Cahalan
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