Subject: Re: Why does mode_t need 32 bits?
To: Jim Bernard <jbernard@tater.mines.edu>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/31/1997 21:32:51
Jim Bernard <jbernard@tater.mines.edu> writes:

> On 10 31, Eduardo E. Horvath wrote:
> > Hmmm...  What does Cray do?  Do we expect to have a NetBSD/Cray port soon?
> 
>   I don't know about c, but fortran uses 64-bit integers on a Cray.

There are 32 and 64 integers in C. We're of course talking vector
machines here, not the Alpha based T3{D,E}.

>   Anybody have a spare Cray lying about to use to do a port?

I'm not sure you'd want to port to Cray. It would be a major project,
and will give you a system that competes with a 386, if you're not
into floating point (hmm, or I/O).

/Johan