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On 4/28/2011 10:09 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
> On 04/29/11 01:50 PM, David Bernier wrote:
>> [...]
>> All we have now are George Marsaglia's posts and writings.
>> I know there's now a move on the way to 64-bit processors,
>> which I take to mean the x86_64 or AMD64 design/instruction set.
>
> The move happened several years ago (at least on the desktop and server).

     ... for suitable values of "several."  DEC's first Alpha CPU's
shipped in 1992, and are now old enough to vote.

>> In any case, with an executable compiled with a C compiler,
>> there's the function sizeof, which might be useful
>> in some cases at run time.
>
> Being pedantic, sizeof is a compile time operator when used with
> integral types.

     It's an operator, always.  It's evaluable at compile time for
any operand, integral or not, except a variable-length array (whose
element count is not determined until run time).

-- 
Eric Sosman
esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid