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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Portability of Arithmetic (was: Java vs Ada 95)
Date: 1996/10/21
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iNorman says

"I'm certainly aware of system code that does each of the above, and in
some cases there are 64-bit types in the APIs.  I am aware of certain
application areas in which 64-bit arithmetic is considered an absolute
requirement."

Then how do you account for the fact that so few C compilers provide
64-bit integers?

Yes, this will change with 64-bit machines, but I still find it
surprising that on many machines you have to go to gcc to get decent
sized integers, and the same is true in the Ada 83 compiler world (did
ANY Ada 83 compiler implement 64-bit integers routinely?)