Re: [rtl] "Longer" Thread Periods

[Kenneth Jacker <khj@cs.appstate.edu>]

  kalatwal> For Linux on a 32-bit machine (Pentium): short = 8 bits
  kalatwal> int = 16 bits long = 32 bits = one word long long = 64
  kalatwal> bits = two words

I've got to be the biggest idiot!  I even wrote a one line program
[ ... (printf("%d\n", sizeof(long long)); ...] to determine the number
of bytes in a "long long".  The printf produced an "8".  Duh: 8x8=64!

Apparently, I "thought" 8x8=32 ... or a byte contained 4 bits ... :-(

Sorry to waste the bandwidth,

  -Kenneth