Re: gEDA-user: pcb crooked traces

[Gabriel Paubert <paubert@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 10:15:15AM +0200, Armin Faltl wrote:
>
>
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>>> Please forgive my ignorance, but can't one just define a 64bit
>>> integer on a 32bit system?
>>>     
>>
>> Yes, but there's a loss of performance if you do that.
>>   
> if one really is anal about it, use 'long long int' which is an 80-bit  
> integer on Intel

That's so wrong that I don't know where to start. long double is 80 bit
floating point and going away (it was introduced with the aberration
known as the stack-based x87 floating point unit)-


> machines and they are handled by the floatingpoint unit, despite they  
> are real
> integers (and, xor, shift, rot, mod, ...)

No.

	Gabriel


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