[Pan-users] Re: GigaNews warns "Usenet Growth Reveals Need for 64-bit Based Article Numbering"

[Duncan]

Rhialto <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 25 Aug 2008
17:42:17 +0200:

> On Mon 25 Aug 2008 at 17:31:13 +0200, CSV4ME2 wrote:
>> run this litle c file thru your compiler, gcc -o size size.c and you
>> will know!
> 
> On NetBSD/amd64:
> 
>                 char =  8 bits
>        unsigned char =  8 bits
>                  int = 32 bits
>         unsigned int = 32 bits
>                short = 16 bits
>       unsigned short = 16 bits
>                 long = 64 bits
>        unsigned long = 64 bits
>            long long = 64 bits
>   unsigned long long = 64 bits
>                float = 32 bits
>               double = 64 bits
>          long double = 128 bits

That's exactly what I get on (Gentoo) Linux/AMD64 as well, which isn't 
surprising I'd guess, since they use gcc also, don't they, and would have 
little reason to change it from what's likely the gcc/*ix default.

Thanks, CSV4ME2. =8^)

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