Ilya Zakharevich on Fri, 1 Nov 2002 00:13:16 -0800


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sizeof(long) > sizeof(long*)?


On which architectures can PARI run with sizeof(long) > sizeof(long*)?
I tested, and it does not work on x86.

(It is probably not very hard to fix, with the patches I have here it
 passes a lot of tests, as one can see from sizes of

    673 Oct 31 23:47 analyz-sta.dif
  11685 Oct 31 23:47 elliptic-sta.dif
   1629 Oct 31 23:47 graph-sta.dif
  14457 Oct 31 23:47 linear-sta.dif
  80005 Oct 31 23:47 nfields-sta.dif
   3859 Oct 31 23:47 number-sta.dif
   1826 Oct 31 23:47 objets-sta.dif
   3955 Oct 31 23:47 polyser-sta.dif
   3891 Oct 31 23:47 program-sta.dif
   1594 Oct 31 23:47 sumiter-sta.dif
  20726 Oct 31 23:47 trans-sta.dif

 However, IMO it is much higher priority to switch GEN from long* to a
 union whatever*.)

Ilya