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Re: scm_bits_t / scm_ubits_t


From: Michael Livshin
Subject: Re: scm_bits_t / scm_ubits_t
Date: 26 May 2001 16:19:35 +0300
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Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> > the whole mess was motivated by me reading the latest (well, draft)
> > ANSI C standard and noticing that `long' is no longer required to be
> > the widest integral type...
> 
> How do we get at the integral type that is guaranteed to hold all
> pointers?

currently, by the configure script (it tries `long', `long long' and
`int.  in general the new C standard has types like int32_t, int64_t
etc., so maybe we could try them too).

C is kind of messy.

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