----- Original Message ----- From: "Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl 6 Internals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 9:42 AM Subject: Parrot config - a small perl task
> On (AFAIK) all systems: opcode_type = intval_type = long. This size has > to match the pointer size. And floatval_type = double. It was not exactly true till recent (the counter sample is OpenVMS, IIRC), and is even more incorrect since Win64 goes to the field: both Itanium and Amd64 ports of Windows XP, or 2003 Server use 32-bit sizes for int and long, while pointers are 64 bit there. So please be prepared... > > Thanks, > leo > > > Regards, Timur
