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From: boyd@france3.fr (Boyd Roberts)
Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was:
 ... the only languages you need!!))
Date: 1997/11/07
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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
>

The original intention of 'int' was to give you a signed machine word.

On a 64 bit machine it makes perfect sense to have a 64 bit int.

It should have been done:

    short 16 (bits)
    int   64
    long  32
    vlong 64

Yes you really do need a new vlong type.  Plan 9 has one.

-- 
Boyd Roberts <boyd@france3.fr>			UTM N 31 447109 5411310

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