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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!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 5 Dec 1996 08:39:47 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 23 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <586tsj$d5v@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <casper.329d5a07@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <5869r2$175$1@asgard.sprintlink.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91462 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1679 comp.unix.internals:11457 In article <5869r2$175$1@asgard.sprintlink.co.za>, philip Shearer <philips@asiatech.co.za> wrote: > Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> writes: > > >Stage 1: > >Keep long 32 bits but now with 64 bit pointers so you can catch every > >program that assumes a pointer can be stored in a long or int. > >I don't see why anyone needs to store pointers as ints or longs >store the them as pointers. And how does one align a pointer if one can't store and manipulate it in a non-pointer type? I would expect that most common Unix and Unix-like systems would be quite difficult to port to a system in which pointers were larger than any other integral data type. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.