From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>
Cc: law@cygnus.com, Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>, Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: small libf2c cleanups
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:53:00 -0000
Message-id: <19971017113934.14615@dot.cygnus.com>
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X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00717.html

On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 11:29:08AM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote:
> 	  > There's no pointer-sized-integer type is there?  
> 	We could create one.
> 
> We already have one, e.g.
> 
> typedef int ptr_type __attribute__ ((mode (pointer)));

Actually it was Fortran, not C I was speaking of. 

I would be delighted if it's changed, but last I heard, g77 didn't
properly support integer*8.  So even if we declared the function
properly, you couldn't assign the value to anything without loosing
information.


r~