Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:49:09 +0100 (BST)


> 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.

Alan

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