AIX Questions

[Perry Smith]

On Jul 24, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

>> Perhaps __64BIT__ is defined by "the compiler", but it is not defined
>> by any GCC on any of the machine I use.
>
>  Not true.  gcc defines __64BIT__
>
> Clever.  So your gcc install does define it, good.  Unfortunately, GMP
> needs to work on other systems but yours.


Again, my objective was to make this work for AIX since the original  
topic was to be able to use its ability to store 32 and 64 bit objects  
in the same archive.  To do that and keep it "AIX"ish, I would use  
__64BIT__.  Its what AIX programmers want and it is supported by xlc  
and gcc.

But, if, for some reason, you are wanting something that cuts across  
all platforms, there is this:

@item __LP64__
@itemx _LP64
These macros are defined, with value 1, if (and only if) the compilation
is for a target where @code{long int} and pointer both use 64-bits and
@code{int} uses 32-bit.

This is used on AIX as well as my Mac platform.  But, just to repeat,  
I don't think that is really want you want to use.  For one thing, xlc  
is not going to use it.

Perry
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