On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:16:10AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> > I'm afraid I'll have very little time this week to track this down myself.
>
> It's OK; I've found myself a SPARC machine and I'm looking into it.
Thank you.
Some perspective for others on the list (Simon already knows all this and
much more, and has made great strides):
Internally, there's still signficiant confusion about integral types. In
particular, on a machine where 32-bits is the 'natural' size for an
integer, it is perfectly reasonable to still want to use 64-bit IVs to do
your work. On such a system, you may or may not decide to use 32-bit
opcodes. Thus IV and opcode_t need to be separate types. We shouldn't
assume sizeof(IV) and sizeof(opcode_t) are the same.
Toruture-testing now with various variations is a good way to uncover
various erroneous assumptions before they get too deeply engrained.
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
