linux-kernel - Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706281333320.24833@anakin>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:34:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, david@...g.hm,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userspace compiler support of "long long"

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jun 28 2007 04:12, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:57:15 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> > LDD3 ch. 11 says that long on Sparc64 is 32 bits.
> >> > Same for "ppc" (don't know which power* arch. they mean by that).
> >> 
> >> Hm, I suppose that table only applies to userspace, not kernel...
> >
> >32-bit userspace?
> >
> >On 64-bit, `long' is 64-bit on all platforms supported by Linux.
> 
> All types are as wide as the compiler makes them.
> 
> Compiler  short  int long llong
> Turbo C      16   16   32     -
> GCC -m32     16   32   32    64
> GCC -m64     16   32   64    64

We do not support building Linux with Turbo C (or MS Visual C for Win64
P64).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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