Context Variables

[Frank Adams]

[Not food]

I thought the phrase "scalar data types" included floats and doubles.
Those can certainly be longer than a long.  Double usually is.

As others have noted, there is no guarantee that a (char *) is not longer
than a long, and it could be on reasonable (my opinion) architectures.

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