Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:01:19 06/19/00
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On June 17, 2000 at 12:33:39, Bo Persson wrote: >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? If the OS was written properly, a simple recompile would instantly turn it into a 64 bit OS. ;-) [snip]
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