[PATCH] unify itoa

[Michael S. Zick]

On Mon July 10 2006 04:46, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> 
> I think I'm starting to waste your (and my) time.
> Alpha is almost history now...
> 

Almost for some,

(HP) Vax and MicroVax - no new machines, remarket only
(HP) Alpha Servers - new orders only until Oct. 2006
(HP) PA-RISC, 64-bit - alive and well - no 64-bit userland
under Linux - 64-bit Linux kernel alive and well.

Two on-going efforts to keep in mind...

Giving parisc-Linux a 64-bit userland is on-going, but you
will not see these in an embedded system.

If an adaption of BB gets shoved into the kernel as some
propose - then handling 64-bit & 128-bit types may come up again.

- - - -

But still, sizeof(unsigned int) is set by choosing the compiler
to use for the code.  There are only two widely used compilers
for pa-risc - HP and GCC - those are 32-bit unsigned int for
both compilers, both 32-bit and 64-bit machines.
(The hardware handles the masking and sign extension.)

Now if you wanted to know about the sizeof(long double)...
Thank goodness, you don't.

Mike