Re: getting a 64 bit integer type

[Dale E Martin]

> This won't necessarily get you a 64-bit integer type.  There are
> machines with 16-bit chars, in which sizeof long long == 4, assuming
> long long is 64-bits wide.  Besides, there's no guarantee that there
> will be *any* 64-bits type.  In C89, the widest data type you could
> count on was long, with at least 32 bits.  In C99, there is long long,
> with at least 64 bits, but it might well be 72 bits if someone ported
> a C99 compiler to one of those old 9-bits-per-byte machines.

Thanks for the info.  Would it make sense for autoconf to have a macro to
define all of the available native types for the language it supports?  Or
is this a fairly unique bit of information to require?

Thanks,
        Dale
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