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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
- Message-ID: <id.RT2V.U4F@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <Bxr8vG.IpI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <martin.721995695@bert> <TMB.92Nov17181419@arolla.idiap.ch>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:14:00 GMT
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- In article <TMB.92Nov17181419@arolla.idiap.ch> tmb@idiap.ch writes:
- > The only problem with this approach was
- > that the early C compilers for 32bit machines messed up and didn't
- > make "long" 64bits.
-
- Yep, that's one of the horrible historical dregs we'll have to live
- with. You can bet that 64-bit computers will have int=32, long=64, and
- long-long=128.
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