[TriLUG] Linux on Sparc

[Paul D. Boyle]

Tom wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 12 March 2002 09:26 pm, M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote:
> 
> > I do have endian sensitivity.  I've dealt with it crudely so far (Intel
> > specific implementation with a comment in the code pointing out the
> > shortcoming).

[snip]

> By the way, you may also want to make sure you're doing something 
> (pre-processor magic if necessary) to specify int4, int8, etc.  You never 
> know when someone will want a 64-bit application for Sparc. :-)

gcc supports many C99 features.  Most relevant to Tom's comment is the
stdint.h header file, which give types of definite width.  For example,
int32_t, uint32_t, etc.

You can turn on these features with #define _ISOC9X_SOURCE  or
_ISOC99_SOURCE macros.

Paul


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