Subject: Re: Tcl7.5 and NetBSD-current
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 02/29/1996 17:16:44
If we did the DEC thing and made long be 64 bits, things that use a lot of
longs would be sluggish on 32 bit machines, but we could offer a
completely conforming implementation. (Modulo gcc not producing a warning
for the occasional constraint, and possibly modulo lazy malloc, if we have
it.)
huh ? dec did that because that's what the alpha wants. netbsd/alpha
has 64 bit longs, for exactly the same reason. (i'm sure chris will
correct me if i'm wrong :)
i'd rather have that speed than worry about conforming to some
broken standard.