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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: pointer alignment when int != char *
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Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 16:06:38 EDT
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In article <13218@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
: That is hideous.  I don't know what supercomputer you are referring
: to but Crays have ints and longs both at 64 bits.  There are no super-longs.
: When we did the compilers for the HEP Supercomputer (64 bit words),
: we opted for 16 bit shorts, 64 bit ints,  and 64 bit longs.  There is
: one more hardware supported type (half words-32 bits).  Avoiding things...

Why not have int be 32 bits? That fits the requirement that
length char<=short<=int<=long. Not a comment, just a question...
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