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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: RFA: fix PR 9164
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> Well, using built_type_int32 defenitely feels wrong for a type
> representing sizes on a 64-bit system.

We could extend it to a larger integer type, but this is only used
to return type sizes - the assumption is that we won't see many
objects whose size is bits does not fit in a 32bit integer.

-- 
Joel