Time for 64-bit longs?

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From: jon at oddhack.Caltech.Edu (Jon Leech)
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In article <291 at mtxinu.UUCP> ed at mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
>The problem is not that the VAX code assumes int == long (it often
>does make that assumption, but those are bugs) but that C defines
>only two sizes of integer: long and short.  Int may be either,
>depending on the implementation, but it must be one or the other.

	I don't think this is correct. All K&R says about it is
that 'short is no longer than long' (pg 34 sec 2.2). Why not have
short=16 bits, int=32 bits, long=64 bits?

    -- Jon Leech (jon at csvax.caltech.edu || ...seismo!cit-vax!jon)
    Caltech Computer Science Graphics Group
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