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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64/32 bit processors - impending disaster?
Message-ID: <2127@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 21:46:48 GMT
References: <1990Feb12.182411.5982@ico.isc.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Feb12.182411.5982@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

| If this 64/32 split happens, it's not going to be a happy situation, as
| anyone who's ever fought a 286 in large muddle will realize.  Having a
| pointer larger than an integer breaks LOTS of C code.  

  I think that most of the vendors realize this, although if anyone ever
makes a large model compiler for the 386 it will have the same problem.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me