portability of mc
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Fri May 20 14:41:02 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 10:09 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 07:13 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> >>- other weird system limits?
> >
> > No. In particular, I don't think we need to support Win64, where long
> > cannot hold a pointer.
>
> Why not? What's wrong about that?
Because it's a common assumption that long can hold any pointer.
In Windows, "long" has always meant 32-bit, whether it's a 16-bit OS or
a 64-bit one.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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