Re: Integers on 64-bit machines

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
09 Jul 2007 17:37:10 +0100 (BST)

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 09 Jul 2007 17:37:10 +0100 (BST)
Organization: dotat labs
References: 07-07-007 07-07-025 07-07-030 07-07-033
Keywords: history
Posted-Date: 12 Jul 2007 22:05:37 EDT

Chris F Clark <cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
>
>That's not the way I recall it and I was working on the Alpha Unix C
>compiler at the time. All of us, preferred the ILP64 model--the
>instruction set was much better suited to that model.


John Mashey wrote an excellent history of the 32/64 bit transition:
http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=421&page=1


Tony.
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