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. -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] Weightless and alone you speed through the eerie nothingness of space you circle 'round the Moon and journey back to face the punishing torment of re-entry -- LUNA-C, ``Supaset8 (full release)'', #24m52s
