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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 64 bit longs?
Keywords: long, 64-bit, int32, int64
Message-ID: <14849@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 14 Jan 91 16:22:18 GMT
References: <2567@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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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

I haven't heard of any C implementations on 32-bit architectures that
elected to use 64 bits for longs; however, there are numerous 64-bit
architectures with the obvious C implementations for those systems.