[Novalug] 64bit vs 32bit
Ed James
edjames@greenbelt.com
Mon Apr 14 12:26:10 EDT 2008
Dang - didn't mean to, but I accidentally learned something new today.
Found a data type called "long long int", which is allowed by the gcc
compiler on my old P-III. It's twice the length of a long, of course.
Ed James
Quoting John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:11:27AM -0400, Ed James wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> If I install from source and compile apps written in the 32-bit
>> era (like I'm doing when I write my own stuff), will the apps
>> automagically always compile okay into 64-bit apps, or are there
>> "gotcha"s that bite when such a re-compile is done?
>
> There are gotchas. Most of them stem from the sizes of base types.
>
> 32-bit 64-bit
> short 2 2
> int 4 4
> long 4 8
> void* 4 8
...
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