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From: Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@cern.ch>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] ILP32 support?
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 01:34:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678204963@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678204954@msgid-missing>


On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Vadim Furman wrote:

> IMHO benefits of ILP32 are huge, since you can relatively simply port
> existing 32 apps to ia64 and in the same time enjoy the perfomance of the
> new chip.

Any application assuming that sizeof(int) = sizeof(long) and/or
sizeof(int) = sizeof(type *) is broken by implementation, because
such assumptions are *never* really needed in correctly written code.
The right thing is to fix it. 

Dan




      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-02-23  1:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-22 22:21 [Linux-ia64] ILP32 support? Vadim Furman
2000-02-22 23:01 ` Don Dugger
2000-02-22 23:08 ` David Mosberger
2000-02-23  0:02 ` David Mosberger
2000-02-23  0:11 ` Vadim Furman
2000-02-23  0:40 ` David Mosberger
2000-02-23  0:47 ` Rich Altmaier
2000-02-23  1:34 ` Dan Pop [this message]

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