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In article <1500@masscomp.UUCP> hank@masscomp.UUCP (Hank Cohen) writes:
% .....
%     What Chuck may be thinking about are the 64 bit long integers
%supported by UTS C.  These things used to be called longs but when UTS
%went public people were porting vax and pdp-11 UNIX applications to
%UTS and the tendency of DEC programmers to treat longs and ints
%interchangably led to problems when longs were 64 bits.  Personally I
%liked having chars shorts ints and longs all different lengths but the
%market prevailed and longs became long longs (Yecch!!).  I don't know

Unless the X3J11 standard has changed since I left the
committee, there was a beastie called a "long double" in the
language, at the request of Cray Research. I ran some stuff on a
Cray, and having long, short, and int all the same size is a
good portability test.
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