From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael@weiser.saale-net.de (Michael Weiser) To: Harry Broomhall Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: long long vs long Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:23:00 -0000 Message-id: <35bd93cc.1833927@mail> References: <901281290.0021090.0@office.demon.net> X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00593.html Hi Harry, You wrote: >[SNIP] >> Unfortunately not. I didn't know that this matters so much. >> >> BTW: Do you love splitting hairs? ;) > > No - but I *do* dislike wrong information! And for >portable programming (which I have to do a lot of) you have to >be *very* clear on the rules. Okay, got me. As I've never seen a system that uses longs with more or less than 32 bits I simply thought that it's pretty useless to argue about whether the standard says this or that when nearly all code relys on that fact. But after reading this thread on the list it seems to me that there are even a lot systems with incredibly long longs and so I now think you're right. ;) Yours Micha - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".