64 bit longs?
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Mon Jan 14 09:09:58 AEST 1991
In article <2567 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> hpa at casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Peter Anvin) writes:
>Does anyone know if this configuration is supported (presumably on 32-bit
>machines):
>char = 8 bits
>short = 16 bits
>int = 32 bits
>long = 64 bits
It is intuitively appealing, but I would be surprised to see anyone
implementing it: it would break far too much badly-written software.
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