Committed, MMIX: Fix 64-bit host (opcodes/mmix-opc.c)

Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
Sun Mar 20 17:24:00 GMT 2005


On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Paul Schlie wrote:
> > Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com> wrote:
> > ...
> >     * mmix-opc.c (O, Z): Force expression as unsigned long.
> > ...
>
> Out of curiosity, what's the general philosophy with respect to
> specifying specific type-sizes, when it's likely critical that
> a type be at-least as large as some critical value?

AFAIK, the general philosphy is that "int" is *at least* 32
bits.  That means it's a slightly different issue than the one
at hand.

> (as it's not clear that long long need be any particular size
> other than at least as large as a long, etc. etc.; when might
> int64_t for example be more appropriate in gnu sources
> example?)

I don't remember for "GNU sources" in general; see the GNU
coding standard.

brgds, H-P



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