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From: jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: R4000 "announcement" (64-bit stuff)
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Date: 14 Feb 91 11:07:02 GMT
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In article <91206@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) writes:
>   I hate to disappoint you John, but the current installed code base is
> *VERY* sloppy about short vs. int vs. long vs. char * vs. ...  When we
> ported 4.3BSD to the PDP-11 one of the biggest problems was the
> assumption that int == long in the BSD code.  I corrected literally
> thousands of such errors.

  A few years ago I ported the X server to a 16 bit machine.  It is also
full of such assumptions.

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - X Protocol Police
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Entry Systems Division, Window Systems
jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com
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