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Article #11281Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
From: peter da silva
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:14
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:14
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In article <TMB.92Nov17181419@arolla.idiap.ch> tmb@idiap.ch writes:
> The only problem with this approach was
> that the early C compilers for 32bit machines messed up and didn't
> make "long" 64bits.
Yep, that's one of the horrible historical dregs we'll have to live
with. You can bet that 64-bit computers will have int=32, long=64, and
long-long=128.
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Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms) Message-ID: <id.RT2V.U4F@ferranti.com> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <Bxr8vG.IpI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <martin.721995695@bert> <TMB.92Nov17181419@arolla.idiap.ch> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:14:00 GMT Lines: 13