13 Feb
2004
13 Feb
'04
10:26 a.m.
Axel Simon <A.Simon@kent.ac.uk> writes:
There is an IA64 port somewhere, and I suspect other 64-bit architectures as well. Presumably they support >4Gb?
I wonder if such an effort is worthwhile. If all pointers are suddenly twice the size then the footprint of a program roughly doubles.
Hmm..how about 32 bit pointers, but with 8 byte boundary alignment? This should give an effective pointer size of 35 bits, adressing up to 32Gb. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants