[M3devel] what to do about file sizes being 32bits?

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:26:07AM -0500, Tony Hosking wrote:
> 
> The question really is what should the top type be?
> 
> We don't want to have all ordinal types base themselves on LONGINT 
> because then they will all incur LONGINT operations (which may be more 
> expensive than the "natural" INTEGER operations).

Is it even necessary for a compiler to implement -128..127 as more than 
one byte?

-- hendrik