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From: | invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: DJGPP reserves wrong int size |
Organization: | Low Charisma Anonymous |
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Date: | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:46:15 GMT |
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:38:16 -0400, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> sat on a tribble, which squeaked: >The purpose of that is to keep the stack aligned to a 32 byte >boundary, which improves performance on today's high-end processors. Modern processors care about alignments as large as *256 bits*!? 64 bits for doubles or for ints on 64 bit chips, I figured, but 256!? -- Bill Gates: "No computer will ever need more than 640K of RAM." -- 1980 "There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of." -- 1980 "This antitrust thing will blow over." -- 1998 Combine neo, an underscore, and one thousand sixty-one to make my hotmail addy.
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