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Re:C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu by thayne on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:46AM (#32364897)
> the other is what the ABI standard says

There are multiple ABIs for x86_64. I think the major compilers use 32 bits for int and 64 for long, but there could very well be a compiler that used different sizes, with a different ABI.

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Re:C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu by jcelerier on Saturday August 06, 2022 @03:15AM (#32365760)
Yep, the x32 ABI on Linux is based on the amd64 instruction set, registers, etc. but uses 32-bit long and pointers (which in my experience is a nice performance boost, I measured up to 20% in some cases)
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