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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was:
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Date: 1997/11/06
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In article <w0b4t5r428o.fsf@mah21awm.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> nospam@spam.com writes:
>I even had one person in the past try and tell me that when Intel went to
>64bits, that M$ was going to have:
>
>  short = 2 bytes
>  long  = 4 bytes
>  int   = 8 bytes

This was Sun's original choice for their 64 bit systems, but I think
later decided against it.