What breaks? (was Re: 64 bit longs?)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <14896 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>There is no portable way to declare a type with *exactly* 32 bits, ...
>
>And there is no guarantee that such a type even exists...

In that case, that machine is going to have real trouble declaring, say,
a TCP header structure.  It is always possible to find machines so badly
broken that you can't cope with them.
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