From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Toon Moene To: Richard Henderson Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, cburley@cadence.com Subject: Re: small libf2c cleanups Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 13:57:00 -0000 Message-id: <9710172041.AA22557@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> References: <447.877034992@hurl.cygnus.com> <199710171829.LAA26528@cygnus.com> <19971017113934.14615@dot.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00723.html Richard Henderson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 11:29:08AM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote: > [ ... pointer sized int ... ] >> 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. The Fortran, i.e. g77, counterpart of an integer large enough to hold a pointer is INTEGER(KIND=7). However, I doubt that that is of any use in this discussion. It really, really starts to be very irritating that Craig can't read the ongoing discussion in egcs@cygnus.com currently. Cheers, Toon.