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Re: Does GNUstep work on 64-bit platforms?
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Jeff Teunissen |
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Re: Does GNUstep work on 64-bit platforms? |
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Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:50:02 -0400 |
Pete French wrote:
> > Ahh, that's what I was thinking -- 'cause I've heard it runs on SPARC.
> > Can anyone else out there attest to things working on a 64-bit
> > platform and/or in 64-bit mode?
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> hhh, but are not the SPARC version of 64 bit and the AMD version of 64
> bit rather different animals ? Specificly I was under the impression
> that on a SPARC both int and long are 64 bits, but on AMD64 an int is
> still 32 bits even though a long is 64 bits. That might break some code
> under AMD which would work on SPARC.
long is still 32 bits I believe, but long long is now much faster than it
used to be.
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