Sat, 10 Aug 2002 01:31:51 -0700, Ashley Yakeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
>>that different pointer
>>types have the same representation - we already rely on that, don't we?
>
> No, we have separate Ptrs and FunctionPtrs IIRC...
Yes, but I mean the possibility that Ptr Word8 looks differently than
Ptr Word32.
> One of the things that really bothers me about C is the way its
> unspecifiedness about types can "infect" other languages. For
> instance, what exactly is a Haskell Int?
It's unrelated to C. Int must have at least 30 bits. It's reasonable
to make it 32 bits on IA-32 and 64 bits on IA-64. No need to exactly
specify its range because we have Integer and Int8/16/32/64 if needed,
and Int is the type appropriate for measuring array lengths for example
(we won't have gigabyte arrays in IA-32 but might have them on IA-64).
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