Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: negative addresses (now 64 bit arithmetic)
Message-ID: <1988May22.020558.17557@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2393@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> <9485@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: Sun, 22 May 88 02:05:58 GMT

If I were implementing a C compiler for a 32-bit machine, I would at least
consider the notion of making "long" 64 bits.  It would probably break a
depressing amount of code, but it would have its uses.  (NB this is also
a reason for having unsigned arithmetic in the machine, since it makes
multiprecision arithmetic easier, as I recall.)