From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1b551e3318e4c1a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-09 01:39:11 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!194.42.224.136!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warm.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.kvaerner.com!news@kvaerner.com From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada? Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:31:11 +0100 Organization: Kvaerner Group IT Message-ID: <9609sg$f410@news.kvaerner.com> References: <94jki1$eha$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <732FACF8BF7E8D79.8125E7BE5B617E0B.B3DBC49334E8E3C4@lp.airnews.net> <20010207.15581000@buzco.penguinpowered.com> <87bssdpkjl.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <95u6f6$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 155.209.159.120 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2120.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5046 Date: 2001-02-09T09:31:11+01:00 List-Id: David Starner wrote >Florian Weimer wrote: >>A lot of software which has been developed on a GNU/Linux system >>assumes a little-endian machine with pointers and C ints which are 32 >>bits wide, and that the hardware does not require any alignment for >>the standard types. > >A lot of software? Pretty much anything shipped with Debian or RedHat has >been compiled and probably run on Alphas and other architectures. It does not neccessarily mean that the software work in 64 bit mode. Many, if not all 64 bit machines support a 32 bit pointer environment with 32 bit integers. Greetings,