64 bit longs?

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1991Jan13.220958.16568 at zoo.toronto.edu>
henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

| In article <2567 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> hpa at casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Peter Anvin) writes:
| >Does anyone know if this configuration is supported (presumably on 32-bit
| >machines):
| >char   =  8 bits
| >short  = 16 bits
| >int    = 32 bits
| >long   = 64 bits
| 
| It is intuitively appealing, but I would be surprised to see anyone
| implementing it:  it would break far too much badly-written software.

I seem to recall that the first version of the Elxsi compilers had
this, but they soon changed long back to 32 bits, using long long as
the 64 bit int.  The reason I always heard was the difficulty of
porting the BSD networking code.  With respect to Elxsi, this is of
course academic, since I believe they went belly up.
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