Subject: Re: bin/3277: mail can't count
To: None <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/03/1997 20:43:14
There is absolutely no reason to associate the bit size of an integer with
address space.  There are a fair number of systems (more than will ever
run NetBSD, I'm afraid) on which int and long are different sizes, and
pointers are as big as long...  It's called MS-DOS in <foo> mode.  (I can't
recall what <foo> is...)  Now, sure, we *probably* won't ever want to port
mail(1) there, but maybe someone will decide to try it.  :)

-s