I'm out of date? RedHat still doesn't *work* on the alpha?! I don't know what the *right thing* is but shipping code that compiles but doesn't work ain't it.
brucee > Wow, you're a little out of date. > > The *BSDs and Linux did the Right Thing: on Alpha and AMD64 > (the two flavors of which I have personal knowledge) "long" > is 64 bits. > > So the vast corpus of software that has been ported to > 64-bit *BSD and Linux systems is now free of the assumption > that sizeof (int) == sizeof (long). > > There is still a pervasive assumption that ints are 32 bits.
