Style guides and portability

David Brooks dbrooks at osf.org
Tue Jan 15 05:38:59 AEST 1991


In article <14848 at smoke.brl.mil>, gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|> In article <BEVAN.91Jan12120920 at orca.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan at cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
|> >What about the cases where it is a requirement that a particular int
|> >MUST be able to hold 32 bit numbers.
|> 
|> The application should use "long" not "int" for such variables.

Does anyone know any implementations where:
  - int is 32 bits
  - long is 64 bits
  - there's no 64-bit support in hardware, and long arithmetic is inefficient?
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