Re: WDC's 32-bit W65T32

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

mdj wrote:
> On Nov 29, 10:22 am, "geoff" <ge...@a2central.com.remove-eu1-this>
> wrote:
>
> >  To: aiiadict
> > Fortunately, Orca/C on the IIgs has a directive to support 32-bit ints.  You
> > don't need a 32-bit processor to use it :)
> >
> > Unfortunately, nobody has written 32-bit libraries for Orca/C to take
> > advantage of it.  Anybody game to compile some new 32-bot libraries and see if
> > anything else is needed to make it work on the existing IIgs platform?
>
>
> The idea of 32-bit int's and 24-bit (int *)'s is a little scary - it
> would break a lot of existing code

Agreed--the "pun" confusing ints with ptrs has been a plague on C
from the beginning (and also a favorite among system programmers ;-).

-michael

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