long long vs long

[Earnie Boyd]

Or why not set a new standard something like

int8, int16, int32, int64 to indicate the number of bits.


---Graham Murray  wrote:
>
> This is probably a silly question, but rather than having long long
for
> 64 bit, why was long not made 64bit? The standard (AFAIK) states that
> short <= int <= long.  So, it should be possible for long to be 64 bit
> rather than 32. This would give a simple progression from 8bit chars
to
> 64bit longs.
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