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=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: nospam@spam.com Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!)) Date: 1997/11/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287237993 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3458D116.2D34@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <63anc7$75p$1@darla.visi.com> <345947D2.D20EF8E9@horvath.com> <345F49A2.5F5DC5A0@aom.ericsson.se> <345f4f9e.0@isc-newsserver.isc.rit.edu> <34666a87.96408197@pncnt.tecnomen.ie> <345f9c32.752004296@mrnews.mro.dec.com> Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peter.Mayne@digital.com (Peter Mayne) writes: > > On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 18:33:45 GMT, mark@$tecnomen$.ie (Mark Burkley) > wrote: > [snip] > > In the case of Alpha, it may have 64 bit registers, but it has natural > 32 bit and 64 bit datatypes. Is one more "natural" than the other? You can emulate 32-bit mode in DIGITAL UNIX. I suspect that NT/VC++ are doing something similar, which doesn't suprise me since M$ has only just managed to get to 32 bits, and is hardly likely to want to run 64bit software just yet... Besides, they have to implement QWORDs first ;-) /Mike