Time for 64-bit longs?

jsm at vax1.UUCP jsm at vax1.UUCP
Fri Jan 30 14:58:20 AEST 1987


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" ? 



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