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Heh. Sometime around '94 I helped Southwestern Bell Telephone with that during the 16 bit to 32 bit transitions of a Mac client.

This means that sometime around the mid 2030's some poor programmers will have to take a break from worrying about Y0x80000000 to get bit by the x86-128 varargs bugs.



I'm not sure what you mean by the 16-to-32 transition on the Mac. Are you referring to the 68k-to-PowerPC transition?


Initially, I thought it was the transition to 32-bit-clean code in the 68k line, but that was more of a 24-to-32 transition, and it only affected pointers:

http://lowendmac.com/trouble/32bit.shtml




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