From: Bob Stout 

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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:08:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Bob Stout 
To: Jerry Coffin 
Subject: Re: [C] word sizes

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jerry Coffin wrote:

> Actually, there's a pretty fair argument that on a 64-bit machine, it's
> reasonable to use:
>
> type    bits
> char    8
> short   16
> int     32
> long    64
>
> but it's more or less irrelevant -- regardless of how reasonable it
> might have been, the only compiler I know of that did this was DEC's for
> the now-moribund Alpha.

As compiler vendors catch up with the 1999 standard, 64-bit values will
more properly be represented as long longs. At least, until 128-bit
architectures become commonplace, then your suggestion will work, reserving
long long for 128-bit values.

> Quite true -- in fact at one point on comp.lang.c.moderated, there was a
> rather protracted discussion of whether there was enough there to
> interpret it as a requirement of the standard, or perhaps a defect in
> the standard that it was basically contradictory.

I wish I still had the time to hang around c.l.c.m., but I have too many
conflicting commitments. Plus I'm well into fogeydom, so I don't have the
same resources to apply to it I once had. :-(

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