[TUHS] Any UNIX With No C In Userland?
Christian Hopps
chopps at chopps.org
Thu Mar 6 01:30:54 AEST 2025
Konstantin Belousov via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> writes:
> ...
> Then, after some time, but long time ago, all Unix-like systems converged
> to just two practically observable ABIs: ILP32 and LP64. Both of them
> require 8bit bytes, byte addressability, natural alignment for the basic
> integer types, and equiality of uint8_t/unsigned char, uint16_t/short,
> uint32_t/long.
I think you mean uint32_t/int; `long` is 32 bits in IPL32 and 64 bits in LP64, indeed the name LP64 stands for Long and Pointer 64 :)
Thanks,
Chris.
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