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RE: WIN-28: fix POSIX file descriptor numbering assumptions
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Cc: "'Adam Megacz'" <gcj at lists dot megacz dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:23:41 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: RE: WIN-28: fix POSIX file descriptor numbering assumptions
- References: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766443BF000@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>
Boehm, Hans writes:
> > From: Adam Megacz [mailto:gcj@lists.megacz.com]
> >
> > Gak, it is in fact a pointer. However, I doubt there will ever be such
> > a thing as Win64 -- Microsoft is most likely going to use the CLR as
> > their 64-bit ABI. Still, just plain Wrong for me to make casts like
> > that.
> >
> AFAIK, win64 is already here. See
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/overview.asp .
Indeed. Mind you, running 32-bit anything on Itanium would be very
silly. And it's going to break a *lot* of code...
Andrew.