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antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl writes:
[...]
> Actually C90 required long to be big enough to store pointers.  So
> on 64-bit machines long was _required_ to be 64 bit.  It was only
> Microsoft insistence that standard was amended.

Not true.

C99 introduced intptr_t and uintptr_t, but they're optional.  In C90,
C99, and C11, it's perfectly valid for pointers to be wider than *any*
integer type

[...]

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