Re: Diff b/w 32bit & 64-bit

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:18:25 -0400 (EDT)


On 2 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] Måns Rullgård wrote:

> "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:
>
> > Måns Rullgård writes:
> >
> > > For Alpha: sizeof(int) == 4, sizeof(long) == 8, sizeof(void *) == 8
> > > For intel: sizeof(int) == 4, sizeof(long) == 4, sizeof(void *) == 8
> >
> > That second line is _only_ correct for Win64.
>

"Win64"?? Do you mean that M$ now takes credit for SEGMENT:OFFSET?
Good! That'll keep 'em in their place! Seriously, I think it's
really Win48 --another Windows distortion. Segment descriptor is
16 bits and the offset remains 32.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

Windows-2000/Professional isn't.

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