From: | t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp |
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To: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
Cc: | t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp, David Gould <dg(at)illustra(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4 |
Date: | 1998-06-12 05:52:30 |
Message-ID: | 199806120552.OAA04175@srapc451.sra.co.jp |
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>And functions for implicit conversion between the old 1-byte "char" type
>and the new 1-byte "char[1]" type, same for "name" to/from "text".
>
>I have int8 (64-bit integers) ready to put into the backend. Once enough
>platforms figure out how to get 64-bit integers defined, then we can
>consider using them for numeric() and decimal() types also. Alphas and
>ix86/Linux should already work.
>
>I had assumed that PowerPC had 64-bit ints (along with 64-bit
>addressing) but now suspect I was wrong. If anyone volunteers info on
>how to get 64-bit ints on their platform I'll including that in the
>first version. For gcc on ix86, "long long int" does the trick, and for
>Alphas "long int" should be enough.
Regarding PowerPC, I successfully compiled a test program below and
got result "8" usging gcc 2.8.0 on MkLinux(DR2.1).
main()
{
long long int a;
printf("%d\n",sizeof(a));
}
--
Tatsuo Ishii
t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp
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