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| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (2007-07-06) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) (2007-07-08) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com (Chris F Clark) (2007-07-08) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines DrDiettrich1@aol.com (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2007-07-09) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines torbenm@app-6.diku.dk (2007-07-09) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines gneuner2@comcast.net (George Neuner) (2007-07-09) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) (2007-07-09) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) (2007-07-10) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines DrDiettrich1@aol.com (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2007-07-13) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com (Chris F Clark) (2007-07-13) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines napi@axiomsol.com (napi) (2007-07-13) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines monnier@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier) (2007-07-14) |
| Re: Integers on 64-bit machines gneuner2@comcast.net (George Neuner) (2007-07-16) |
| [2 later articles] |
| From: | Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 09 Jul 2007 17:37:10 +0100 (BST) |
| Organization: | dotat labs |
| References: | 07-07-007 07-07-025 07-07-030 07-07-033 |
| Keywords: | history |
| Posted-Date: | 12 Jul 2007 22:05:37 EDT |
Chris F Clark <cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
>
>That's not the way I recall it and I was working on the Alpha Unix C
>compiler at the time. All of us, preferred the ILP64 model--the
>instruction set was much better suited to that model.
John Mashey wrote an excellent history of the 32/64 bit transition:
http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=421&page=1
Tony.
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