Optimizing libc/string for amd64(?)

Peter Jeremy PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au
Sun Jun 5 06:25:19 GMT 2005


On Sat, 2005-Jun-04 21:36:53 -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote:
>It would probably be better to use int64_t and int32_t instead of long/int,
>in order to make the intention more obvious.

The intent is to use the widest, efficiently supported type.  This is
'long' on all of our architectures.  int64_t has to be simulated
on i386 and is therefore not an idea choice.

-- 
Peter Jeremy


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