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From: Peter.Mayne@digital.com (Peter Mayne)
Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was:
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Date: 1997/11/09
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On 6 Nov 1997 10:33:31 GMT, boyd@france3.fr (Boyd Roberts) wrote:

>In article <danpop.878747091@news.cern.ch>, Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
>>Is it "natural" to have no *standard* 64-bit integral type on a compiler
>>for a CPU with 64-bit registers?  Yet, this is the case for Alpha NT and
>>OpenVMS compilers :-)
>
>Sad, but true.  They got it completely wrong.

Why?

PJDM
Digital Equipment Corporation (Australia), Canberra, ACT
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