Re: PDD 4: Internal data types

[Hong Zhang]

> >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.

I am still confused by the purpose of INT. Making it a union will lose type
safety.
Why not just use SV directly?

By the way, on OS/400, the pointer is 128 bit and may not be cast between
int
and void*.

Hong