John Polstra writes:
>Snob Art Genre wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>>> In message <xfmail.990430112019....@polstra.com>, John Polstra writes:
>>> >Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>> >
>>> >You're being totally unrealistic.  You can't create >2^32 of
>>> >_anything_ on an i386 without running out of memory.
>>> 
>>> Well, John, you can, the newer ones will address 2^36 bytes of memory
>>> and even a i386 can address 2^32 bytes or 2^35 bits...
>> 
>> Since when does FreeBSD only run on i386?
>
>Sheesh.  Make it a bloody long then so you'll get 64 bits on the
>Alpha.  And then go fix all the printf format mismatches.
>
>Or, pull you head out of that dark fantasyland and realize that (a) a
>32-bit counter is not a problem in any realistic sense, and (b) if it
>were, we'd have thousands of other equally serious problems throughout
>the system.
>
>I'm done with this absurd thread.

I tend to agree here - but I'll submit a patch with an assertion in the next
couple of days.


adrian


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