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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!usenet From: rickg@eng.sun.com (Richard Goldstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 28 Nov 1996 07:33:40 -0800 Organization: SunSoft, Inc. Lines: 39 Sender: rickg@upuaut Distribution: inet Message-ID: <ku7d8wyutd7.fsf@upuaut> 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> Reply-To: rickg@eng.sun.com NNTP-Posting-Host: upuaut.eng.sun.com In-reply-to: eggert@twinsun.com's message of 27 Nov 1996 15:51:17 -0800 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:90722 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1618 comp.unix.internals:11355 From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Date: 27 Nov 1996 15:51:17 -0800 Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes: >And it can be claimed, C standard in hand, that there cannot be an integral >type > long. That claim isn't true for Solaris, since it has `long long'. 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 (:-)? A 64-bit version of Solaris might be "LP64" (i.e. longs and pointers are 64-bit), as it seems to have become industry the standard (except for Hal, anyway). rick -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Richard M. Goldstein richard.goldstein@Eng.Sun.COM 64-bit Linkers, Libs & Executables SunSoft, Inc. "Without time we pick up all the streams, and find the leaves that drift out inbetween..." -Kirkwood