From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser)
Subject: Re: long long vs long
23 Jul 1998 02:23:32 -0700
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Hi Graham,

You wrote:

>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.
No because the standard says
short == 16 bit
long  == 32 bit
int   == 16 or 32 depending on the machine's architecture

For example: Under DOS int is 16 bit while under Win32 und UN*X it is
32 bit.
So there's no way for long to be 64 bit while conforming to the
standard.

bye

Michael
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