Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 64 bit longs?
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.210315.21433@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2567@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Jan13.220958.16568@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 21:03:15 GMT

I wrote:
>>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.

A friend, who has asked that his company not be identified, replied by mail:

> Oh god tell me about it.
> 
> [Our box] has just this model [...] and you would be
> horrified to find out how many problems this has caused in the
> Berkeley kernel networking code alone.....
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