64 bit longs?

[Henry Spencer]

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.
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