Re: standard representations

[Andy Dougherty]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> As for types presented to extensions, we can certainly provide I8, I16, 
> I32, and friends.

But we can't guarantee that every platform has integral types of those
sizes.  For example, in perl5, I32 is sometimes 32 bits, and sometimes 64
bits.  Some Crays simply don't have native 32-bit types.  All integral
types are 64 bits.

So we can provide something called "I32" but we can't guarantee it's 32
bits.


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    Andy Dougherty              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042