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From: "Niels Christiansen" <nchr@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:04:11 +0000
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] What's taking all the system time..?
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> > Is it just an urban myth, or was it once declared upon
> > high that longs shall always be 32 bits, ...
>
> I'm not sure it's even an urban myth.  The first (1978)
> edition of K&R lists sizes of integral types on some
> sample hardware.  Longs were 36 bits on a Honeywell 6000.
> Longs have never uniformly been 32 bits.

Could be an urban myth but that neither makes it right
or makes sense.  As for Guantanamo Bay, don't wish it upon
anybody.

... Niels