int32 et al. (was: Style guides and portability)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <26 at christmas.UUCP> rtm at island.COM (Richard Minner) writes:
>I've gathered from this discussion (and others) that it is unlikely
>that long will ever be implemented to be larger than int, unless int
>is less than 32-bits (in a `quality' implementation?).  Is this so?

No.  There are already implementations which do this, although the folks
using them report considerable trouble porting sloppy code, and some
ended up changing their decisions about representation as a result.
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