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*))


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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.
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