Re: INTEGER's destiny

"Richard A. O'Keefe" <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:23:52 +1300 (NZDT)

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Someone wrote:
	> I thought  on 64 bits plateform, the C 'int' type was still 32 bits 
	> sized, while 'long int' was 64 bits. Am I wrong?

Yes, that person is wrong.  At the moment I have access to three different
64-bit machines.  On one of them a long int is 8 bytes, but on the other
two it is 4 bytes.  'long' is only guaranteed to be at least 32 bits.

The usual way to get 64 bits is 'long long', or the new int64_t.