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Subject: Re: [9fans] Is this a bug in 8c?
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:19:07 +0000
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Russ Cox wrote:
> 8c et al. don't do ? : for non-integer types,
> and long long is a non-integer type (meaning
> it's synthesized from multiple machine words).

long long is an "integer type" according to the meaning
of that term in the C standard.  That's not determined
by implementation details such as how many words are needed.

> Ken said the amount of work wasn't worth it.

Strange, it's about the same as supporting "long" on the PDP-11.