64 bit architectures and C/C++

[John F Carr]

In article <16023 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>Note that a standard-conforming implementation is obliged to diagnose
>use of any construct such as "long long".  Therefore that is a stupid
>extension.

I disagree.  I want a compiler that supports ANSI features, but I would
rather have "long long" cause the compiler to generate 64 bit code than
cause the compiler to say "error: invalid type".  I think the C standard is
valuable because it is a list of what is valid C, not because it also says
what is not valid C.

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    John Carr (jfc at athena.mit.edu)