From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: klibc list <klibc@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: long long on 32-bit machines
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:12:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <401809B2.70907@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4017F991.2090604@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone happen to know if there are *any* 32-bit architectures (on
> which Linux runs) for which the ABI for a "long long" is different from
> passing two "longs" in the appropriate order, i.e. (hi,lo) for bigendian
> or (lo,hi) for littleendian?
>
> I'd like to switch klibc to use the 64-bit file ABI thoughout, but it's
> a considerable porting effort, and I'm trying to figure out how to best
> manage it.
>
I don't know how it is for GCC, but when using the Sun compiler, "long
long" for 32-bit is low-high, while "long long" (or just long) for
64-bit is high-low. This has been an annoyance to me. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-28 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 18:04 long long on 32-bit machines H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-28 19:12 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-01-28 19:15 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-29 11:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-01-31 6:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-31 12:23 ` [klibc] " Arnd Bergmann
2004-01-31 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-01 0:41 ` Paul Mackerras
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-28 19:22 Arnd Bergmann
2004-01-28 20:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-28 20:51 Ulrich Weigand
2004-01-29 1:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-29 9:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
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