__LP64__ defined on Alpha Linux?

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Tue Mar 28 22:24:00 GMT 2000


> The fact that the gcc for Linux alpha doesn't already have one of these
> sorts of defines must be associated with the fact that there is no 32 bit
> object model on this platform.  I wonder if there is any plan of adding
> this, or is Linux alpha going to always mean 64 bit object model.

The latter. There used to be a 32 bit port of Linux to Alpha, but that
has been abandoned long ago. I understand that having both would be
seen as a maintainance nightmare, and that the community is better off
without it.

Regards,
Martin



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