linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean

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Message-ID: <44D60B34.3020202@sgi.com>
Date:	Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:31:00 +0200
From:	Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> We know that today long is the only one that differs
> 
> For "modern architectures" maybe, but older compilers (like Turbo C 
> compiler (1990)), int is a 16 bit quantity, and therefore does differ, from 
> today's implementations at least.

Excuse me, but this conversation was about compiling the Linux kernel.
What non GCC compilers do is irrelevant to this.

Jes
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