Re: Size of C/C++ data type from GNU GCC/g++ compiled ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64 vs. ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386

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Subject: Re: Size of C/C++ data type from GNU GCC/g++ compiled ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64 vs. ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:01:38 -0500
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Brian Dessent wrote:

It's very broken to assume that sizeof(long) is 4, because that is not
true on almost any 64 bit platform, the major exception begin Windows
x64.


Incidentally, does the Windows-x64 port* of gcc perpetuate this idiocy?

(*...which may not exist, if so s/does/will/)

--
Matthew
"Five is right out!"
  -- Cleric (from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail)

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