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On 12/29/2010 03:37 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> or could just use unsigned long instead.
> 
> on 32bit it will be under 4g
> on 64bit unsigned long  is 64bit already.
> 

This is true, although it seems fragile -- the whole terminology and the
differences between 32 and 64 bits are just a huge headache.

	-hpa

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