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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Supersedes: <cancel.casper.329d5931@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Date: 28 Nov 1996 10:19:46 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <casper.329d5931@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329abb76@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ej3a$7ij@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329ae8f2@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57fipg$q7j@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329c06bc@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ik5l$12i$1@shade.twinsun.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:90720 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1617 comp.unix.internals:11354 eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes: >While we're on the subject, when will Solaris migrate to the right way >of doing things: int = 32 bits, long = 64? Perhaps this will be >another set of ifdefs in the Solaris 2.7 include files (:-)? When they'll move to a 64 bit operating system; this will not change for the 32 bit version nor will it change for 32 bit programs running on a 64 bit OS. (they will keep the 32 bit V8 ABI, I' think) Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.