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Re: Target FUNCTION_{PRO,EPI}LOGUE question


On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Neil Booth wrote:

> However, there is a conflict between "HOST_WIDE_INT" and "int" which

Why do we have HOST_WIDE_INT rather than using the normal C name "long"  
for that concept?  Is this just so it can be "long long" when doing 32x64
cross-compiles, because of the limitations of GCC's representations for
target integers, or is there some other reason?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk


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