long long vs long
Harry Broomhall
haeb@demon.net
Wed Jul 22 06:17:00 GMT 1998
Graham Murray said:
>
> 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.
This is a frequent question. I am told that while it would
be thoreticaly a good idea, so much existing code would break as
to make it unviable. (This from a member of the C9x committee.)
Regards,
Harry.
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