On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 01:42, Greg McGary <greg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ÂI am porting Linux to a new architecture (a massively multi-threaded > network processor), which has a unique and bothersome characteristic: sizeof > (void*) > sizeof (long). ÂIn most regards, it is a 32-bit machine, but > pointers and all GPRs are 48 bit. ÂPointers occupy 64 bits in memory, with > 16 bits ignored by load/store. Forgive my ignorence, but is there something fundamentally wrong with having 48-bit longs? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
