64 bit longs?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Tue Jan 15 03:22:18 AEST 1991


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

I haven't heard of any C implementations on 32-bit architectures that
elected to use 64 bits for longs; however, there are numerous 64-bit
architectures with the obvious C implementations for those systems.



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