32 bit longs

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <231 at nazgul.UUCP> bright at nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>P.S. I prefer stuff like:
>	#if sizeof(long) == 4
>	...
>	#else
>	#error This algorithm needs to be ported
>	#endif
>but ANSI C seems to have torpedoed that.

I don't know why you say "torpedoed" -- that usage was never proper C,
was not supported by the UNIX C implementations, and would require
significantly more complex preprocessing, assuming that one could even
specify precisely how to fit it into the phases of translation.