Re: WDC's 32-bit W65T32

["geoff" <geoff@a2central.com.remove-eu4-this>]

  To: mdj
I am pretty sure everybody always allocate 32-bits for (int *) when writing in 
assembly (the high byte is ignored).  When would you actually _need_ to use 
just 24-bits?  I don't see why a IIgs C compiler can't handle 32-bit (int *). 
I looked at this a couple of years ago and did not see any gotchas.

Geoff

 > 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

 > Matt
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