[Cxx-abi] Re: [cxx-abi-dev] Question about guard variable typ es

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Friday, December 06, 2002 09:11:18 AM -0800 "Nelson, Clark" 
<clark.nelson at intel.com> wrote:

>> If we do what you suggest, G++ will have to change.  I'd
>> prefer just to
>> match G++; there's nothing particularly wrong with "long long" and
>> there aren't -- yet -- very many non-IPF implementations to
>> worry about.
>
> In what way do you think G++ would have to change?

It won't -- if we change the ABI to say "long long".  Otherwise, it needs
to be changed to explicitly construct a 64-bit type.

>> Intel, HP?
>
> I can tell that a question is being directed to Intel, but I don't know
> what the question actually is. Could you spell it out please?

What type do you use for guard variables in 32-bit mode?  In 64-bit mode?

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