Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]> · Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:18:45 -0500

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:13 -0600, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Marty Kraimer wrote:
> > Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >> [williams@ics-srv-epics1 iocamd64]$ ./st.cmd
> >> int 4 long 8 unsigned 4
> >>  
> >>
> > This is the same as solaris-sparc64.
> > 
> > Thus long being 64 bits does not explain why exampleApp crashes on 
> > solaris-sparc64 but not on linux64.
> 
> Sun provide a useful chapter in their C compiler manual that talks about 
> converting code from the old ILP32 (Int, Long, Pointer = 32 bits) model 
> to the new LP64 (Long, Pointer = 64 bits) model, which is apparently 
> "the creation of a consortium of companies across the industry" and thus 
> becoming a de-facto standard:
> 
> http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6697/conv_v9.html
> 
Awesome.
Thank you Andrew for finding this excellent reference.

I have already been bumping into some of the pointer issues on some of
the EPICS extensions.

> - Andrew

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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