Scott Robert Ladd writes: > On a 64-bit AMD64 architecture, GCC defines long long as 64 bits, the > same as a long. > > Given that certain 64-bit instructions (multiply) produce 128-bit > results, doesn't it seem logical the long long be defined as 128 bits? > > I'm just wonder... That will break too many "portable" software ;-(. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126