11 Sep
2022
11 Sep
'22
9:45 p.m.
On 9/11/22, Bakul Shah <bakul(a)iitbombay.org> wrote:
C's INT_MAX, LONG_MAX etc are kind of an environment enquiry...
What size to use in C for int and long (pointers had to be 64-bit; no
issue there) was a big headache for DEC in the migration of Unix
(Ultrix) from VAX to Alpha. The first C compiler implementation used
ILP64 (64 bits for int, long, and pointer) and ran afoul of a lot of
code that assumed an int was 32 bits. ILP64 vs. LP64 because as
divisive an issue as the big-endian vs. little-endian debate.
-Paul W.