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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>,
	"Tor Arntsen" <tor@spacetec.no>
Cc: "Carsten Langgaard" <carstenl@mips.com>,
	"Ralf Baechle" <ralf@linux-mips.org>, <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: 64-bit and N32 kernel interfaces
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:48:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <010301c254da$892fcc50$10eca8c0@grendel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.3.96.1020905134606.2423G-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl

From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
>

> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tor Arntsen wrote:
> 
> > > Any reference?  AFAIK, long is 64-bit for n32 and only void * is 32-bit. 
> > >It doesn't make sense otherwise. 
> > 
> > On SGI/Irix n32 long and void* are 32-bit, only long long is 64-bit.
> > On SGI/Irix n64 long and void* are 64-bit too.
> 
>  Hmm, it looks pretty much broken if that's true (especially given long
> long was non-standard untile very recently).  I'll check the docs, yet.

n32 has the same data types as o32, an "ILP32" C integer 
model.  n64 is a pretty normal "LP64" C integer model.

What do you consider to be broken, and how would you
have preferred it to have been done?

            Regards,

            Kevin K.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Cc: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit and N32 kernel interfaces
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:48:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <010301c254da$892fcc50$10eca8c0@grendel> (raw)
Message-ID: <20020905124815.50nW4DXyc_5a3a8M3e9d-dAvCksAB8PYDLfFPptcRUw@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.3.96.1020905134606.2423G-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl

From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
>

> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tor Arntsen wrote:
> 
> > > Any reference?  AFAIK, long is 64-bit for n32 and only void * is 32-bit. 
> > >It doesn't make sense otherwise. 
> > 
> > On SGI/Irix n32 long and void* are 32-bit, only long long is 64-bit.
> > On SGI/Irix n64 long and void* are 64-bit too.
> 
>  Hmm, it looks pretty much broken if that's true (especially given long
> long was non-standard untile very recently).  I'll check the docs, yet.

n32 has the same data types as o32, an "ILP32" C integer 
model.  n64 is a pretty normal "LP64" C integer model.

What do you consider to be broken, and how would you
have preferred it to have been done?

            Regards,

            Kevin K.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-05 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-05  9:30 64-bit and N32 kernel interfaces Tor Arntsen
2002-09-05 11:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 12:48   ` Kevin D. Kissell [this message]
2002-09-05 12:48     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-09-05 14:09     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 14:20       ` Hartvig Ekner
2002-09-05 14:20         ` Hartvig Ekner
2002-09-05 14:54         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 14:59           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-05 15:10             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 15:14               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-05 16:16                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 16:19                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-05 16:33                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 16:39                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-05 17:16                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 17:29                   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-09-05 17:29                     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-09-05 19:34                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-06  9:42                   ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-05 18:07               ` Hartvig Ekner
2002-09-05 18:07                 ` Hartvig Ekner
2002-09-05 18:54                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 19:16                   ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-09-06  9:30               ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-05 14:22       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-05 15:08         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 15:14           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-05 16:28             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 16:30           ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-09-05 16:54             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 17:44               ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-09-05 19:50                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 22:12                   ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-09-09 17:39                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-06 10:14           ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-09 14:01             ` Dominic Sweetman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-04 13:56 Ralf Baechle
2002-09-04 14:14 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-04 14:31   ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-04 15:19     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-04 18:46       ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-05  9:53         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05  6:40       ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-09-05  9:23         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-05 13:41           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-09-04 17:32     ` Jun Sun
2002-09-04 17:56       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-04 18:40       ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-05 10:15         ` Kjeld Borch Egevang
2002-09-05 10:15           ` Kjeld Borch Egevang
2002-09-09 20:20 ` Jay Carlson
2002-09-16 13:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-16 15:40   ` Ralf Baechle

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