Subject: Re: emuns on ARM: What should we do?
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 01/21/2002 11:24:13
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:53:11AM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:05:06PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>  > Having any integers that are not the true 'natural' size for the
>  > architecture (32bits for almost everything except ILP64 alpha) costs
>  > code.
> 
> FWIW, no one uses the Alpha in "ILP64" mode.  It's LP64, which is to say
> 32-bit int, 64-bit long,pointer, 64-bit long long.

That's not completely true; the T3E does use Alpha in ILP64 mode.

Not relevant to the current discussion of course, but still extant.

-andy