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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