Two or three initial observations on the fp prining patch

Nathan Myers ncm-nospam@cantrip.org
Thu Nov 20 16:06:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:52:16PM +0100, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Jerry Quinn wrote:
> >Can we rely on (unsigned) int to be 32 bits on all supported
> >platforms?  If so, great.  The language doesn't require that, though.
> >
> Indeed, it doesn't. But it requires at least 16 bits.
> So, not many possibilites... 16, 32 (64 seems unlikely to me for int
> (vs long))

I don't think we have to support 16-bit int.  No g++ targets use it,
to my knowledge.  But we do have to support 64-bit int.

Nathan Myers
ncm-nospam@cantrip.org



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