From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 16bit C compilers
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:14:25 +0000
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>>will run slower.)  Or at least I *hope* the Plan9 coders used
>>long instead of int when they needed more than 16 bits, something
>>that has been standard practice since about 1977.

it started out that way in Plan 9, but my impression is that people
don't bother as much any more.  a few things can change in 25 years.

i thought steve simon was asking about using a port of the C compiler as
a cross-compiler.    it might well be feasible.   the compiler distinguishes
short, int and long (and others such as vlong) internally, allowing them
different sizes.  (at one time, it sometimes blurred int and long when type checking
but that was changed some time ago.)