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In article <DF9zLI.43E@avalon.chinalake.navy.mil> Peter P. Eiserloh <Peter_Eyes_Eiserloh@wssagw.chinalake.navy.mil> writes:

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>Shortly we will have compilers where the "int" will be a 64-bit word.
>Then in many cases we will have the same problem we had when we went 
>from 16-bit words to 32.

There were C compilers where 'int' was 64-bits and 'short int' was 32-bits
over a decade ago..  There are C compilers where 'char' is 32-bits.  If you
start depending on types having specific sizes, or even being able to get
at data of certain sizes with types (ie 16-bit data in either of the above),
then you may find yourself in trouble if you port to a new architecture.
Better than 90% of the code Ive seen in C, C++, etc... has such dependencies.
It gets worse when you have 36-bit or 60-bit machines :->

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>: Peter "Eyes" Eiserloh
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-Steve
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