Re: Diff b/w 32bit & 64-bit

[mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)]

ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu (Johannes Ruscheinski) writes:

> Also sprach M?ns Rullg?rd:
> > "Mohamed Ghouse , Gurgaon" <MohamedG@ggn.hcltech.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Hello All
> > >  I am working on a Driver.
> > > Considering the processor 2 B Intel's x86, 
> > > can some one enlighten me with the differences of Linux on a 64-bit
> > > processor & a 32-Bit processor.
> > 
> > For Alpha: sizeof(int) == 4, sizeof(long) == 8, sizeof(void *) == 8
> > For intel: sizeof(int) == 4, sizeof(long) == 4, sizeof(void *) == 8
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I don't know where you come up with that.  On x86 Linux the size of
> any pointer is 4 bytes!

Of course it's 4, that's the point. My mistake, sorry if I confused
anyone.

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