Re: gEDA-user: pcb crooked traces

[Stephan Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx> writes:

> ... To the best of my knowledge, gcc uses a 32-bit long
> even on 64-bit systems, to maintain compatibility with old code.
> This was true last I checked, a year or two ago.

   main(){printf("%lx\n",(long)(-1));}

yields

   ffffffffffffffff

with 

  gcc (Debian 4.4.4-13) 4.4.5 20100902 (prerelease)

in aggreement with

> On a 64 bit systems, pointers are going to be 64 bits -- after all,
> that is why you are going to 64 bits.  The C spec says "longs shall be
> big enough to hold a pointer" so that you can cast pointers and longs,
> and can union pointers and longs.


-- 
Stephan 


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