Joe Buck wrote:
32-bit integers are going to remain useful types, and
LP64 architectures finally have char = 8, short = 16, int = 32, long = 64,
which is too useful to break.
Hmm... pratically,
"Handle and Pointer Sizes" in
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/dc/64bit/197664.htm?page=2
When I try to attach the qualification "useful"
to program text whose basic types cannot be interpreted
without extended exegesis of various documents,
I wonder whether it should be the compiler's job to
correct this situation, as has been suggested in this thread.
Georg
