On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:36 AM, dexen deVries <dexen.devr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Monday 07 of May 2012 11:27:29 Charles Forsyth wrote: > > The MIPS, PowerPC and SPARC all grew to 64 bits from 32 bits, so 32 bit > > quantities > > (and usually but not always 16 bit and 8 bit quantities) have suitable > > instructions to fetch them. > > fwiw, back in my uni days we were using some old 64bit Solaris on Sun's > UltraSparcs, and those had sizeof(int) == 8. i remember distinctly how my > lame > programs (developed on x86 and assuming sizeof(int) == 4) tripped on it. > > can't recall exact versions, but the CPUs were somewhere around 400MHz or > so, > and GCC was the compiler of choice. I may be recalling this incorrectly, but I think you're right about the 8, but didn't they also eventually bring it to 4 as well (or maybe I'm thinking of Sun C)? -- Greg Comeau / 4.3.10.1 with C++0xisms now in beta! Comeau C/C++ ONLINE ==> http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout World Class Compilers: Breathtaking C++, Amazing C99, Fabulous C90. Comeau C/C++ with Dinkumware's Libraries... Have you tried it?
