On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:10:51PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

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No - the point is that all data types have the same size in N32.  It
was created explicitly as a transitional sop for people who didn't want
to fix their code, but wanted a performance increase from their 64-bit
hardware.

 Well, what's the performance increase of n32 over o32?  The increased
number of argument registers?  I doubt it's noticeable in most cases.

That's a minor optimization.  More important is the availability of
MIPS III/IV and MIPS64 instruction sets which means 64-bit integer registers
and 32 64-bit double precission fp registers.

  Ralf