On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Fergus Henderson wrote: > > or how it could possibly relate to the width of pointers. > > It doesn't. Pointers have the same width, it's just that > the upper 32 bits become padding bits rather than address bits. Right. That's what -xtaso (eXtended Truncated Address Space Option) is for--it enables the #pragma pointer_size directive. Jeff