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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 27 Nov 1996 15:51:17 -0800
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casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:

>And it can be claimed, C standard in hand, that there cannot be an integral
>type > long.

That claim isn't true for Solaris, since it has `long long'.

While we're on the subject, when will Solaris migrate to the right way
of doing things: int = 32 bits, long = 64?  Perhaps this will be
another set of ifdefs in the Solaris 2.7 include files (:-)?