On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:42:49AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:17:56 -0700, "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> said:
>
> Jeff> On early IA64 long long was assumed to be 64 bit, long 32
> Jeff> bit. After emailing some folks off line I relaize this may not
> Jeff> be the case any longer, but still is on some compiler options.
>
> In the context of Linux, this is certainly not true. Linux/ia64
> always has been LP64 (i.e., sizeof(long)=8). Perhaps you're confusing
> this with the hp-ux C compiler, which defaults to ILP32? Another
Correct.
Jeff
> potential source of confusion is Windows, which uses the P64 data
> model (only pointers and "long long" are 64 bits).
>
> --david
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