Time for 64-bit longs?

[ed at mtxinu.UUCP]

>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.

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.

Other people have used the "long long" hack, too.

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