fixed memory bytes

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Tue Jan 4 13:25:20 EST 2011


Hi..

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 01:22, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc at gmail.com> wrote:
> that is it mulyadi. but how the compiler or kernel forces the things to get
> initialized in that fixed size only independent of the architecture??


well, AFAIK by mapping that new type into native one...for example,
let's say I have "u_int", which in turn when this code is compiled for
x86 32 bit, it is a typedef of "int".

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