Computer Scientists’ Trivia

Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia by dvirsky on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:52AM (#13549855)

There's an error in the Primitive C types section, the width of long:

> long 8 (32 bit) 8 (64 bit)

the second column should be "4 (32 bit)" AFAIK, but definitely not 8 bytes / 32 bit.

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Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia by peapicker on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:12AM (#13551573)

Even that is inaccurate. Long is 4 bytes on 64bit windows, 8 bytes on 64bit UNIXes (all I've used) and 4 bytes on OS/400 with teraspace (an environment with 16 byte pointers)

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Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia by dvirsky on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:20AM (#13551661)

yeah but certainly 8 bytes are not 32 bit

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