[Gridflow-dev] Re: AMD64 (K8) support

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> Anyone tried to compile GridFlow on AMD64 (K8) ?
> Because it doesn't work, so I wanted to know whether anyone had a fix for
> that.

I have written this small (9 lines) program so that we can figure out the
sizes of basic C++ types easily. (alx, this is a slightly updated version
of the one i sent you before)

------------------8<--------cut-here--------8<------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <cstddef>
#define T(a) printf("%s:%d; ",#a,sizeof(a));
int main () {
T(void *)T(ptrdiff_t)T(off_t)T(size_t)puts("");
T(char)T(short)T(int)T(long)T(long long)puts("");
T(float)T(double)puts("");
return 0;}
------------------8<--------cut-here--------8<------------------

put it in a text/plain file called sizeof.cpp and run this command:

  g++ -xc++ sizeof.cpp -osizeof && ./sizeof

it should report exactly this on K6,K7,P3,P4,etc:

  void *:4 ptrdiff_t:4 off_t:4 size_t:4 
  char:1 short:2 int:4 long:4 long long:8 
  float:4 double:8 

and apparently on K8 it's a bit different:

  void *:8 ptrdiff_t:8(?) off_t:8(?) size_t:8(?) 
  char:1 short:2 int:4 long:8 long long:8 
  float:4 double:8 

I added "(?)" to the three ones I have had to guess because the test i did
with alx this afternoon were missing those three ones.

If anyone gets results different from mine, or has tried it on a different
type of CPU (e.g.: G3,G4,G5,ARM,XScale,MIPS,SPARC,...) please reply to
this message with the output of the program.

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