From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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To: | Ken Camann <kjcamann(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: A Windows x64 port of PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2008-07-04 08:51:03 |
Message-ID: | 20080704085103.GA6696@svana.org |
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:45:06AM -0400, Ken Camann wrote:
> When 32-bit arrived (much too late, at Microsoft) most x86 compilers
> that had formerly used the segmented memory model made int 4 bytes
> like people felt "it was supposed to be" but left long at 4 the way it
> was so as not to bloat all the variables to double words on such a
> register-poor architecture as x86.
The usual way to talk about these things is that unix systems went for
LP64 and Microsoft apparently went for LLP64. This link
http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html
talks about it. I don't think anyone is going to change their position
on this now.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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