Author: Bo Persson
Date: 09:33:39 06/17/00
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On June 16, 2000 at 00:53:02, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 16, 2000 at 00:46:44, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>Unfortunately, backward compatibility sometimes is more important than >>performance/reliability/(you name it). > >This is cowtowing to broken code (that assumes integers/longs whatever have a >certain number of bits in them). Just what happens when you try to run a 32-bit OS on a 64 bit machine :-) Which size is most natural? >Too many decisions like that for me, but I guess I should have gone to committee >meetings and pitched a cross-eyed hissy-fit if I wanted it otherwise strongly >enough. Bo Persson bop@malmo.mail.telia.com
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