[LLVMdev] How to handle size_t in front ends?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:09 -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> >>
> >> i64 should be big enough for this.  Just use i64.
> >
> > On a 32-bit platform, doesn't one want to use i32?
> 
> Why?  What is wrong with i64?

On its face, the problem is that it doesn't fit in a native register...
or is there something here that I am failing to understand?