Re: increasing the size of the bitmaps.. (AFF, PLR, PRF) and the like

From: Naved A Surve (naved@bird.taponline.com)
Date: 08/06/95 

In message <199508070233.WAA01810@garden.WPI.EDU> you said:
> ok... my roomate and i discovered that there is a declaration like:
> long long int a;

This construction is so non-portable it hurts my teeth.  What is wrong with
just declaring two long ints if you need 64 bits of bitmapped space?  This is
equivalent to recommending that one buy an Alpha because its long ints have
64 bits in them.

-Naved

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