forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Wed Oct 24 20:25:18 PDT 2007


On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:56:50 -0400
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:

> RW wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:49:24 -0400
> > "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) ... showing that
> >> int's are always word length
> >>     
> >
> > s/always/typically/
> >
> > C has been around for a long time and there is always a
> > counter-example to any sweeping generalisation that isn't backed-up
> > by a standards document. 
> 
> BTW I was slightly wrong it is longs not int's that change depending
> on word size:

What's variable is defined by the standard, not by the  differences
between particular implementations. 


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