From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO?
Date: 1997/02/25
Date: 1997-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.856921347@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 331316F1.7F2C@watson.ibm.com
Norman said
<<A 64-bit Count type is quite plausible: In early versions of AIX, one
of the first needs that arose for 64-bit integers was for file offsets.>>
Sure, but this is for offsets into arbitrary files. I think you are being
quite unrealistic to assume that anyone would decide that a text file
might have more than 2 billion lines of text, or a single line longer
than 2 billion characters. The only way I can imagine an implementor
choosing to use 64-bits for count is if the machine naturally handled
64-bit integers, and type Integer was 64-bits. So I am sorry I disagree,
this is implausible, and I cannot imagine an implementor making this
decision.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-02-25 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-11 0:00 How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO? Dale Stanbrough
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-01 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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