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From: CUMMINGS@S55.Prime.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 32 bit C Comps and Long
Message-ID: <132000024@S55.Prime.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 18:40:00 GMT
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wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu wrote:
>	Excuse me for being a little sarcastic here, but is not the
>following true?
>
>	For a 32bit integer (as someone writes about) use
>
>		long int x;
>
>	the variable x will then be 4bytes = 4bytes * 8bits/byte =32bits
>
>
>Someone asked about a C compiler that supported 32bit ints of 386
>machine.  They answer as I see it is yes, they all do.
>
>
>-bryon-

Excuse me for being realistic, but what was being asked was is there
a C compiler that will use the 386 32 bit registers to manipulte 32
bit data instead of doing it with multiple instructions using the
8088/80286 16 bit registers!  Microsoft C allows you to select
code for the 286 via the /G2 command line option, but /G3 does not
(yet?) generate 386 instructions (at least as of 5.1).

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