On Wednesday 25 of April 2012 15:32:06 erik quanstrom wrote: > also, in case you missed it sizeof(int)==sizeof(long)==4 on both 32 > and 64 bit plan 9, so recompiled programs won't get bigger integers > just for the recompiling.
pardon silly question, but... why, on 64bit machine, P9 uses 32bit ints and longs? my impression is, int was supposed to match machine's preferred (best performance etc.) integeral datatype, and long was supposed to be enough to hold a pointer? (i.e., sizeof(long) >= sizeof(void*)) -- dexen deVries Until real software engineering is developed, the next best practice is to develop with a dynamic system that has extreme late binding in all aspects. -- Alan Kay
