extreme mem usage under amd64 arch ?

[Oliver Fromme]

John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote this message on Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 23:16 +0200:
 > > John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
 > > > Not quite...  FreeBSD/amd64 like all? the other arches are LP64...
 > > > that means longs and pointers are 64bits, while ints remain at 32bits...
 > > 
 > > I think longs are 32 bits on /i386, and 64 bits on /amd64
 > > (On /i386, "long longs" are 64 bits.)
 > 
 > Sorry, I ment to write like all the other 64bit arches....
 >                                           ^^^^^
 > 
 > since i386 isn't 32bit, it isn't LP64, the same way arm or powerpc
 > isn't LP64...

Oh, I see.  Yes of course, you're right.

Best regards
   Oliver

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