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Re: 64-bit

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From: Nathaniel P Woods
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 20:43
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>It's my opinion that int's should be optionally postfixed with their
>size...
>ie. stdlib.h should define int8, int16, int32, int64.
>"int" alone should be whatever size the processor deals with best, and
>"short" and "long" can be whatever the compiler vendor deems best.

It isn't that hard to implement these types, in fact, most companies
that do cross platform work do something like that.  You can even
implement types that are not supported on a given platform (i.e. int64
on all platforms save OSF/1) using classes and operator overloading in
C++.  All you have to do is make your own header and have separate
versions of this header for different platforms.

Nate
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From: Nathaniel P Woods <nw2d+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:43:03 -0500
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