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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
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On 4/11/25 15:45, Ike Naar wrote:
> On 2025-04-11, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>> I haven't remarked on:
>>
>> 7 That you need 3/4 tokens to specify a simple u64 type.
>
> On the PC in front of me, two tokens are sufficient:
>
> unsigned long
,
That type is not guaranteed to be exactly 64 bits long, nor is it
guaranteed to be at least 64 bits long. That it happens to be 64 bits on
a particular implementation isn't especially useful, at least not as far
as portable code is concerned.