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Re: small libf2c cleanups
Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 11:29:08AM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote:
> [ ... pointer sized int ... ]
>> We already have one, e.g.
>>
>> typedef int ptr_type __attribute__ ((mode (pointer)));
> Actually it was Fortran, not C I was speaking of.
>
> I would be delighted if it's changed, but last I heard,
> g77 didn't properly support integer*8. So even if we
> declared the function properly, you couldn't assign the
> value to anything without loosing information.
The Fortran, i.e. g77, counterpart of an integer large enough to
hold a pointer is INTEGER(KIND=7).
However, I doubt that that is of any use in this discussion.
It really, really starts to be very irritating that Craig can't
read the ongoing discussion in egcs@cygnus.com currently.
Cheers,
Toon.