Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:35:47 +0100 | From | (Tor Arntsen) | Subject | Re: le32_to_cpu() help... |
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In article <fa.h6it7ov.a3gc3l@ifi.uio.no>, hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes: >Both macros do the same thing on all *currently supported* >architectures. One never know when a funny thing from Mars shows up; >perhaps a 48-bit architecture, who knows...
Norsk Data ND-10 and ND-100 minicomputers could be ordered in a special version where single-precision floating point registers were 48 bits instead of 32 bits (double-precision were always 64 bits). Worked rather nicely actually :-)
Ah, and integer word size was 16 bits.
-Tor
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