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To: Robert Salasidis who wrote (134792)5/13/2001 12:49:47 PM
From: pgerassi  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Dear Robert:

Point 1:

All x86 CPUs with x87 FPUs can handle 64 bit integers. They are handled by the FPU, because it already handles 64 bit mantissas.

Point 2:

2^32 bits are already handled by all >=386 CPUs as 2^32 bits is only 512MB. I think you mean >4GB and virtual memory is up to 16TB. Also, under Linux, large files are already supported >4GB for x86 CPUs (upto 2G 1KB blocks = 2TB).

Pete
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