On 07/22/14 16:40, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> 22.07.2014 13:31, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>> Are you serious that we should take into an account such exotic as HAL
>> Computer Systems port of Solaris to SPARC64?
>     Yes.
>
>> Let me once more citate from that page:
>> "Many 64-bit platforms today use an LP64 model (including Solaris, AIX,
>> HP-UX, Linux, OS X, BSD, and IBM z/OS)" (where sizeof(int) == 4). I see
>> here the list of our supported (more or less) ports.
>     Currently supported, yes. But such things used to jump in all of sudden 
> during porting
> to a new platform. "It is hard to foresee the future. Always in motion it 
> is." (c)
>     I had enough fun with unexpected bitness to learn the lesson well: use 
> the same type
> everywhere.
>

OK, but if we want to take into an account systems with 64-bit int the 
only solution is artificial types? Like FB_SIZE_T?


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