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From: Ron Natalie <ron@sensor.com>
Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was:
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Date: 1997/11/05
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nospam@spam.com wrote:

> You can emulate 32-bit mode in DIGITAL UNIX.

Not really.  The only thing you can really do is fix the
linking so that nothing is used in the address space greater
than 2**32.  While there is a compilation mode that lets you
turn on 32 bit pointers entirely, you have to be very careful
to disable it when communicating with the system libraries as
DEC doesn't provide 32 bit versions of these.