Axel Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> There is an IA64 port somewhere, and I suspect other 64-bit
>> architectures as well.  Presumably they support >4Gb?

> I wonder if such an effort is worthwhile. If all pointers are suddenly
> twice the size then the footprint of a program roughly doubles.

Hmm..how about 32 bit pointers, but with 8 byte boundary alignment?
This should give an effective pointer size of 35 bits, adressing
up to 32Gb. 

-kzm
-- 
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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