Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 64 bit longs?
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.220958.16568@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2567@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 1991 22:09:58 GMT

In article <2567@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Peter Anvin) writes:
>Does anyone know if this configuration is supported (presumably on 32-bit
>machines):
>char   =  8 bits
>short  = 16 bits
>int    = 32 bits
>long   = 64 bits

It is intuitively appealing, but I would be surprised to see anyone
implementing it:  it would break far too much badly-written software.
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