64 bit architectures and C/C++

[Conor O'Neill]

In article <179 at shasta.Stanford.EDU> shap at shasta.Stanford.EDU (shap) writes:
>While I happen to agree with this sentiment, there is an argument that X
>hundred million lines of C code can't be wrong.  The problem with
>theology is that it's not commercially viable.


Or did you mean "C hundred million lines of X code"...

(Apparently X even has such nasties buried inside it as expecting
that successive calls to malloc have higher addresses,
forcing the heap to grow upwards.) (So I'm informed)
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