64 bit architectures and C/C++

[Raul Rockwell]

Richard A. O'Keefe:
   An anecdote which may be of value to people designing a C compiler for
   64-bit machines:  there was a UK company who built their own micro-coded
   machine, and wanted to put UNIX on it.  Their C compiler initially had
   char=8, short=16, int=32, long=64 bits, sizeof (int) == sizeof (char*).
   They changed their compiler in a hurry, so that long=32 bits; it was
   less effort to do that than to fix all the BSD sources. ...

eh??

any reason they couldn't have compiled with -Dlong=int ?  (Or, if you
wanna be fancy, you could 
#define long _long
typedef int  _long;

seems rather silly to break the compiler just because of old code...

Raul Rockwell