Re: Migrating to larger numbers

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:51:22 -0700

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > It doesn't even need to be the top 32 bits; we can export any 32 bits we
> > want. This seems to me to be the right way to go, given that we're
> > already carrying the overhead in glibc.
>
> Good point. So we can go 32:32 and use 12:20 bits of it.
>

That would be my vote.

-hpa

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