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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:

|> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>:
|> > |> I'm not very worried about this.  On modern machines int == long 
|> > 
|> > You mean alpha, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x68-64 are not modern machines?
|> 
|> Well, S390 certainly isn't! :-)

s390x is the new 64 bit architecture.

|> If the PPC etc. have 32-bit ints then I stand corrected, but I thought the 
|> compiler ports on those machines used the native register size same as
|> everybody else.

On all those architectures the ABI used on Linux has int == 32 bits and
long == 64 bits.  LP64 is more usefull in most cases than ILP64.

Andreas.

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