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Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

Posted Jun 28, 2012 17:41 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths by butlerm
Parent article: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

I ran into plenty of it trying to port 32-bit software to a machine that had 40-bit 'long'. It breaks things in surprising ways. (Especially since sizeof(long) == 8 on said machine.)

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