how to tell 64 vs 32 bit architecture ?

[Andrew Milton]

+-------[ Luigi Rizzo ]----------------------
| On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:48:57PM +1000, Andrew Milton wrote:
| > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 05:16:53AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
| > > 
| > > gcc 3.4 on a 32bit machine complains because the second constant
| > > is too large.
| > 
| > Can I ask why the 64 bit constant isn't 0xd00de123deadbeef , which would make
| > bits 0-31 the same for both architectures, which might simplify the problem.
| 
| because i want to run with very strict compiler checks and implicit
| truncation is always flagged as a Bad Thing(TM).

But even if you don't do implicit truncation, filling in the 'new' bits with a
constant rather than shifting and filling the bottom bits would give you more
options, or a better class of options?

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Andrew Milton
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