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From: pb@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Peter Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 80486 vs. 68040 code size [really: how many regs]
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Date: 19 May 89 07:14:31 GMT
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In article <8125@killer.Dallas.TX.US> elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>But there's one problem: Types. On a 68000, shorts and ints are 16
>bits, longs are 32 bits. What this means is that if I declare a
Are you sure this is correct? The compilers I have used work with shorts as
16 bits ( word ) and ints and longs as 32 bits ( long word ). The situation you
describe is used on the 8086 family as far as I know. ( Lattice c on MSDOS ).
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