Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> added the comment:

Apparently the AS/400 had 128 bit pointers and IBM's "System i" still has them:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.garbage-collection.boehmgc/651
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27019425


So I'll leave the SIZEOF_VOID_P test as the preferred method. Perhaps
the best way to sidestep all these issues would be to write a small
C module for getting type sizes.

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