Re: PDD 4: Internal data types

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:05 PM 3/2/2001 -0800, Hong Zhang wrote:
> > >at some
> > >points it becomes necessary to have an unsigned type for "the largest
> > >integer" which in this case would be 72 bits.
> > >[and on a machine with nothing larger than 32 will be 32]
> >
> > Sure. The size of an INT will probably be either 32 or 64 bits, depending
> > both on the size of an IV and the size of a pointer for the target
>machine.
>By the way, on OS/400, the pointer is 128 bit and may not be cast between
>int
>and void*.

Gack. 128 bits for a pointer? Never mind. (The casting issue isn't a 
problem if the thing you're casting into is of the largest type)

                                        Dan

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