Re: Size of C/C++ data type from GNU GCC/g++ compiled ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64 vs. ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > Incidentally, does the Windows-x64 port* of gcc perpetuate this idiocy?
>
> That's a silly question... Of course it does, it's not gcc's decision to
> make.  If gcc were to act in a way that is fundamentally broken from the
> platform specification it would be utterly useless as a compiler --
> calling any system function or anything else built by the native tools
> would have wrong arguments, structs would have different layouts, you'd
> get all kinds of random crashes.

Hmm, true... bleh. Bummer that even gcc is stuck with Microsoft's 
decision making.

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Matthew
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