64 bit longs?
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Tue Jan 15 08:03:15 AEST 1991
I wrote:
>>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.
A friend, who has asked that his company not be identified, replied by mail:
> Oh god tell me about it.
>
> [Our box] has just this model [...] and you would be
> horrified to find out how many problems this has caused in the
> Berkeley kernel networking code alone.....
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