Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4

>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));
}
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Tatsuo Ishii
t-ishii@sra.co.jp