Time for 64-bit longs?

[jtr485 at umich.UUCP]

In article <260 at vax1.ccs.cornell.edu>, jsm at vax1.UUCP writes:
> In article <848 at epimass.UUCP> jbuck at epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
> >Has anyone bit the bullet and gone to 64-bit longs?  I know Convex
> >has a monstrosity called a "long long" that's 64 bits; they leave
> >long as 32 bits, the same as int, apparently because it was too hard
> >to change all the Berkeley code that assumes long == int.  But it
> >seems the Vax architecture will soon require a 64-bit type at the
> >high end.
> And will the future 128-byte pointer be a "long long long" ? 

Even assuming you meant 128-bit address,just what do you propose doing with
that pointer?  Going to assign every quark in the universe its own address?

--j.a.tainter