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Re: Size of basic types
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- To: Paul Schlie <schlie at comcast dot net>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 23:56:32 -0500
- Subject: Re: Size of basic types
- References: <BDD69813.8224%schlie@comcast.net>
Paul Schlie wrote:
Thanks, I didn't appreciate that there was a dependency between the size of
a pointer and the size of a long; I had mistakenly presumed that as long as
there was a supported int datatype which was at least as large as a pointer
(as in the above example long long == pointer size) GCC's infrastructure
would support it.
Zack did not say that GCC could not support it, just that it would be
essentially a new port and a huge amount of work, and that it *might*
be the case that breaking the pointer/long assumption would cause
further difficulties.
That seems a fair analysis to me ...