Re: Recent checkins

[Simon Law]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, James Morrison wrote:

> > > 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.

        Sorry.  Bits, not bytes.  *phbbt*

        The information I got was from 
http://docs.sun.com/htmlcoll/coll.33.7/iso-8859-1/CUG/data.represent.html

Simon