Re: Recent checkins

[James Morrison]

--- Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On 8 May 2002, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> 
> > > And we know more specifically that:
> > > 
> > > short int < int = long int.
> > 
> > According to whom?  The world is more than just x86.
> 
>       I agree.  On SPARC v9 machines:
> 
>       char  :  8 bytes
>       short : 16 bytes
>       int   : 32 bytes
>       long  : 64 bytes
> 
> Simon
> 

 Humm, 
   where did you get this information, any sparcv9 machines I have say a long
is only 4 bytes.  I also don't know of any machine that has 8 bytes chars,
even unicode doesn't use that.



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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

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