From:	GMurray AT cware DOT co DOT uk (Graham Murray)
Subject:	long long vs long
21 Jul 1998 10:24:41 -0700 :
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To:	"'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

This is probably a silly question, but rather than having long long for
64 bit, why was long not made 64bit? The standard (AFAIK) states that
short <= int <= long.  So, it should be possible for long to be 64 bit
rather than 32. This would give a simple progression from 8bit chars to
64bit longs.
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