On Saturday 05 of May 2012 18:48:37 Charles Forsyth wrote: > many existing C programs (and not just on Plan 9) think long is 32 bits, or > don't care. > those that do care don't work. for those that don't care, it doesn't matter. > it's quite difficult to decide automatically (eg, in a compiler) into which > category a program falls. > a compiler can't easily detect that a program expected 32 bits only and > will malfunction with 64. > (..snip..)
thank you and erik for the explanations, makes perfect sense now :-) -- 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
