> That's why I asked "what does 'is 64-bit' mean". Your previous reference to$
Any particular reason for the paragraph-length line? Manually repairing it (and trimming to the part I'm replying to), > [...] the question "does this program use 64 bit addresses". There > are at least two other possible questions: (a) does this program have > access to 64 bit registers, and (b) can this program do operations > such as arithmetic on 64 bit integers. You would be hard-pressed to find a platform on which (b) is false (and I'm not restricting that to NetBSD-supporting platforms, though I think I would have to restrict it to devices that were designed to be general-purpose computers). Even things like the tiny little MC68HC908QY4 8-bit microcontrollers in 16-pin DIP packages I've currently lost my tube of can do 64-bit arithmetic. Not fast (they don't do _anything_ fast), and not in single instructions, but so what? Even a sparc64 machine can't do a general-purpose 64-bit add in a single instruction unless both inputs are already in registers and leaving the output in a register is acceptable. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
