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Re: 64 vs 32 bits (was Re: (no subject))

From: Jamie Lokier <jamie_at_shareable.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 22:11:45 +0100

Alexander Lazic wrote:
> On Fre 07.10.2005 20:09, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> >On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Brian Krings wrote:
> >
> >>I am using cURL in a C application that works fine... until I got on a
> >>64 bit SLES 9 zSeries system. My application is a 31 bit application
> >
> >Most computer architectures are 32 or 64 bits, but you have a 31 bit
> >one?
>
> Yes this is only, as I know, on Linux for zSeries.
> Imho it's a nice 'joke' from IBM ;-(

I belive the S/390 architecture is 32-bit to use the terminology of
other modern architectures. Words are 32 bits wide; only the address
space is limited to 31 bits - and that sort of limitation is quite
common among a lot of architectures and not particularly relevant to
the C programming model.

-- Jamie
Received on 2005-10-09

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