wORD_SIZE vs platformWordSize of targetPlatform

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 12:07:05 UTC 2014


On 08/08/2014 13:15, Johan Tibell wrote:
> We seem to have two ways to get the same piece of information. We can
> get the target (?) word size as wORD_SIZE but there's also the
> platformWordSize field in the Platform data type, which is held as
> targetPlatform in DynFlags. Which one should I use? Most code uses
> wORD_SIZE.

We should kill one or the other, probably platformWordSize.

Cheers,
Simon


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