Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:51:22 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > It doesn't even need to be the top 32 bits; we can export any 32 bits we > > want. This seems to me to be the right way to go, given that we're > > already carrying the overhead in glibc. > > Good point. So we can go 32:32 and use 12:20 bits of it. >
That would be my vote.
-hpa
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