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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: New typedefs in sys/types.h
To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:56:07 +1100 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199801130027.RAA25349@usr08.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 13, 98 00:27:09 am
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In some mail from Terry Lambert, sie said:
> 
> > > Technically, long should be 64 bits because sizeof(int) is <= sizeof(long);
> > > but just as technically, a 64 bit int meets the "register size test"
> > > and the "single bus cycle test" for "int-ness" (the same test that
> > > *should* have made compiler writers use 16 bit int's on 68000/68010
> > > chips).
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> > i believe i goes like...
> > 
> > long = 64 bits
> > int = 32 bits
> 
> This is, of course, just the bogosity I was trying to avoid.

Well, FWIW, apparently Digital Unix has int = 32 and long = 64.