[M3devel] <*LAZYALIGN*>

[Tony Hosking]

Rodney,

Why does there need to be an entry for LONGINT in RTPacking?  I would  
have thought all packing is done on word-sized units anyway. Each  
side of the connection can check BITSIZE(LONGINT) to figure out what  
to do presumably no differently from the way INTEGER is communicated  
between 32-bit and 64-bit machines.  Am I missing something?

-- Tony

On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Tony Hosking wrote:

> Ah, OK.  I don't much delve in pickle-land.  Anything I can help with?
>
> On Feb 14, 2008, at 11:02 PM, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
>
>> 1) RTPacking.T and needs to have a separate size for LONGINT,
>>    (which can vary independently of the size of INTEGER).
>> 2) Variable length values of subrange bounds found in type
>>    descriptions (in TipeDesc.i3) can now have values beyond
>>    what the native word size can represent.
>> 3) RTType.Kind.Longint (which I presume you, Tony, added recently)
>>    is not handled by Pickles.
>>
>> I have done some coding on this, but have been interrupted.
>>
>> Tony Hosking wrote:
>>> Why is LONGINT for pickles not yet supported?
>>
>> -- 
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>> Rodney M. Bates, retired assistant professor
>> Dept. of Computer Science, Wichita State University
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