Size of basic types

[Paul Schlie]

> From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
> 
> Paul Schlie wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, I didn't appreciate that there was a dependency between the size of
>> a pointer and the size of a long; I had mistakenly presumed that as long as
>> there was a supported int datatype which was at least as large as a pointer
>> (as in the above example long long == pointer size) GCC's infrastructure
>> would support it.
> 
> Zack did not say that GCC could not support it, just that it would be
> essentially a new port and a huge amount of work, and that it *might*
> be the case that breaking the pointer/long assumption would cause
> further difficulties.
> 
> That seems a fair analysis to me ...

Yes, thanks, understood.