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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:10:04 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more!
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> usize is indeed the same size as uintptr.
> Instead of either for purely integer values, it would be better to
> make all integers 64 bit

I hope that was intended as a joke.  It's not that long ago I was
writing C for a 16-bit processor (in a smart card).  I would hate to
lose the meaning of "int" as "whatever fits in a CPU register".