Of course, the "easy" solution to the 32 bit barrier is
to use bitfields :)
Then the sizeof int on this OS or that doesn't matter
at all!
Edward Glamkowski, Programmer Mathematica Policy Research
EGlamkowski@mathematica-mpr.com Princeton, NJ
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com
"Wenn du lange in einem Abgrund blickst,
blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein." -Nietzsche
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>From: Angus Mezick[SMTP:angus@EDGIL.CCMAIL.COMPUSERVE.COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 1997 9:20 AM
>To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
>Subject: Re: larger than 32 bit ints and OS's
>
>Digital has OSF
>Data General makes DGUX, but I don't know if they have a 64bit version (damn
>and
>I interned in the Q/A dept there last summer :( )
>--Angus
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>I'm not 100% on MacOS, or MkLinux, but RedHat and SlackWare are 32bit. As
>far as I know the only redily available 64 bit OS's are a port of Linux to
>the ALPHA, a flavor of SunOS (or was it slowaris?), and I think Digital
>has a 64bit version of DGUX.
>
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