Re: [Mingw-users] sizeof long

[Jeff S. <js...@de...>]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> IMO, it would be beneficial for the standard to change to using int8,
> int16, int32, etc. so that it was obvious as to what is meant; but, that
> isn't likely to happen anytime soon. 

That would cripple machines that cannot process e.g. int16
efficiently.  The C language is supposed to be an abstraction layer,
though it doesn't work out that way in practice.  (Ironically you could
use Java, which guarantees the size of all its primitive types despite
its higher level of abstraction.)

But to keep this slightly relevant... anybody thought about a mingw kit
for IA-64?  It would take some work to adapt binutils, I assume...

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Jeff Sturm
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