Re: [Freetype] 40-bit longs

[Sander Vesik]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I'm contemplating a port to the TI DM642 DSP.  One issue that's sure
> > to crop up is the size of longs on this platform.  ULONG_MAX is
> > 1099511627775, but sizeof returns 8 due to alignment issues. [...]
>
>
> Weird.

DSP-s are special purpose hardware, it looks like they set the length of 
long to be that of teh accumulator (which makes sense as a += b*c and 
similar will be able to then be coded to not to overrun). the sizeof 
hack is just a product of no software out there knowing what to do with 
non power of two sizeofs (yes, its a gross hack)

>     Werner
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        Sander

Daniel Carrera: I think I'll stick to simple things like
the 5-dimensional gravity paper I'm reading.