Hey, On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, John Love-Jensen wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > > i would like to know if it is normal that long int and long long int are > > 64 bits long on amd64 (I have thought that long long would have been 128 > > bits long). > > Hmmmm. I'd have thought that on a 64-bit word-size architecture, int would > be 64-bits big, long would be 128-bits big, and long long would be 256-bits > big. > on amd64, with gcc 4.0.3 (well, an instable debian release), int is of size 32 bits long int is of size 64 bits long long int is of size 64 bits > After all, canonically, int is supposed to be the natural word size of the > architecture. And long is twice that size, and long long is ... well, > whatever long long is supposed to be. i also supposed something like that. Vincent
