On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 02:56:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > because long and int are the same so it really doesn't matter.
> >
> > That's not a terribly great assumption to make, is it?
>
> It would take a lot of work get get Plan9 to work on a
> machine where that isn't the case, and I don't see anyone
> jumping up to do it.
That's true, but I still wouldn't go as far as sanctioning the
practice. Also, a fair amount of Plan 9 code is now running under
various other platforms where that's not necessarily the case via
plan9ports.
Charles's point about the subtleness of type-sizing not withstanding
(in the original case, someone was passing an int in place of a long,
which would be promoted automatically), it's still something one should
be careful about. All the world is no longer a 32-bit 386.
- Dan C.
