64 bit architectures and C/C++

Bret Indrelee bret at orac.UUCP
Mon May 20 05:55:21 AEST 1991


In article <16103 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>
>By the way, there is NO NEED to say what data size choices a 64-bit
>implementation "should" make.  It "should" not matter to any sensible
>application.



Except maybe the guy writing a device driver, where the person needs
to exactly match the size of a data type to the size of a hardware
register.  Yet another reason to spread the sizes around.

-Bret
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