math/big: define Word as uint instead of uintptr
For compatibility with math/bits uint operations. When math/big was written originally, the Go compiler used 32bit int/uint values even on a 64bit machine. uintptr was the type that represented the machine register size. Now, the int/uint types are sized to the native machine register size, so they are the natural machine Word type. On most machines, the size of int/uint correspond to the size of uintptr. On platforms where uint and uintptr have different sizes, this change may lead to performance differences (e.g., amd64p32). Change-Id: Ief249c160b707b6441848f20041e32e9e9d8d8ca Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/37372 Run-TryBot: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org> TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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