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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> Now the common situation when 'int' is 32 bits, is that 'long long' is 
> 64 bits; what's the point of 'long'?

The point is that int is at least 16 bits (and encouraged to be the
"natural" size for the machine in some vaguely defined sense), long is
at least 32 bits, and long long is at least 64 bits.  You can write a
lot of code relying only on those guarantees.

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