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RE: [RFC] Support for HP NonStop

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Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Date
Sep 19, 2012, 08:16 UTC
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> From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:jengelh@inai.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:24 AM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: 'Junio C Hamano'; git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: [RFC] Support for HP NonStop
> 
> 
> On Friday 2012-08-24 22:43, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> >
> >> By the way, is "int" wide enough [for intptr_t/uintptr_t],
> >> or should they be "long"?
> >
> >int and long have the same size, 32-bit, here on NonStop.
> >But we do have 64-bit types too. Not sure which to take though.
> 
> intptr_t is supposed to hold a void * pointer, so should be
> at least as big.

OK, thanks. We are on IA64 but still use the ILP32 model (so 32bit pointers. Support for LP64 has been added recently, but isn't the default. However, long changes from 32bit to 64 bit when changing from ILP32 to LP64, so is the save bet here, right?

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  1. Joachim SchmitzAug 24, 2012
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  3. Joachim SchmitzAug 24, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2012
  5. Joachim SchmitzAug 25, 2012
  6. Jan EngelhardtSep 19, 2012
  7. Joachim SchmitzSep 19, 2012

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