From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: 64 bit integers ??!?
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:10:03 -0500
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Andy Fung wrote:
> 
> Strange, since an int is 32bit, I wonder 64bit integer are not declared at
> long int instead.

To comply with the ANSI standard (actually, ANSI says longs can be >= 32
bits, but...) and keep most programs that assume long to be 32 bits from
breaking.  Besides, the 80x86 architecture, which is what DJGPP targets,
is not a 64-bit architecture, so in order to use 64-bit integers the
compiler must go through some hoops that slow code down.  Making a
standard data type suffer from this kind of performance loss is a very
bad idea.

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