On 10/07/2018 15:30, Mark Wills wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 15:24:48 UTC+1, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>> With oodles (Soon to be tera-oodles?) of RAM available
>> on the RPi3, and in future releases likely to be even more,
>> is there any point to continuing to cater for bytes, halfwords
>> and words, when everything, including CHAR, can be a 64 bit
>> quantity?
>
> Yes. Portability.
I see no difficulty in porting to other 64 bit systems
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