Re: Fat references

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:43:18 +0000 (UTC)

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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:43:18 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
References: 09-12-045 09-12-055
Keywords: architecture
Posted-Date: 01 Jan 2010 11:43:05 EST

Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2009-12-29, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
(snip)


> You must be using ``quad word'' differently from the rest of the world,
> where it is understood to be 64 bits, according to this convention:


> 16 bits: word
> 32 bits: double word
> 64 bits: quad word


That is VAX. Everyone else uses 32 bits for a word.


-- glen

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