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Re:Java JDK 1.0 (1996) by froh on Saturday May 15, 2021 @08:10AM (#27164492)
on x86 and arm. not on s390.
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Re:Java JDK 1.0 (1996) by rzzzt on Saturday May 15, 2021 @08:28AM (#27164584)
In a Java Virtual Machine, it is a 32-bit signed value: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-2.ht...
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Re:Java JDK 1.0 (1996) by froh on Saturday May 15, 2021 @02:03PM (#27167447)
my bad you're right. I got confused on if we are on the java or on the c side of things, because we discussed 'verbatim copy of c struct... fields'

apologies.

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