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long long vs long
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- Subject: long long vs long
- From: Graham Murray <GMurray at cware dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 08:01:03 +0100
This is probably a silly question, but rather than having long long for
64 bit, why was long not made 64bit? The standard (AFAIK) states that
short <= int <= long. So, it should be possible for long to be 64 bit
rather than 32. This would give a simple progression from 8bit chars to
64bit longs.
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