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- From: jbrock@csfb1.fir.fbc.com (John Brock)
- Subject: Alpha 64 bit integers
- Message-ID: <BzF8Ju.LrG@csfb1.fir.fbc.com>
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- Organization: First Boston Corporation
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:50:14 GMT
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- A question for you DECie techie types from a total outsider. Does the
- new Alpha architecture have native 64 bit integers? How are they
- organized? As a natural extension of DEC's little endian 32 bit
- integers? Or something else?
-
- Will Alpha C compilers have 16 bit shorts, 32 bit ints, and 64 bit
- longs? Will FORTRAN have INTEGER*8?
-
- Do the new MIPS chips have 64 bit integers, and are they the same as
- DEC's? Do they have them in both big and little endian flavors, as
- they do with 32 bit integers? How about HP (PA) and IBM (POWER)
- architectures, which I understand are also at least potentially 64
- bit. It seems to me that with 64 bits to play around in there is even
- more potential for incompatabilities and big/little endian type warfare
- than with 32 bits, so I hope somebody is thinking about this.
-
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- John Brock
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