Proposal: shoot vint64 through the head

[Mark Atwood]

I think this is actually a question for Joel.

As in: out in the field, especially in small embedded systems, are there
any important 32bit targets that are not compiled to with GCC, clang, or
are ARM?

..m

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:18 AM Eric S. Raymond <esr at snark.thyrsus.com>
wrote:

> Today I learned that in C99, "long long" is guaranteed to be at least
> 64 bits.  POSIX does not guarantee that a 64-bit integral type exists,
> only that it is available as int64_t/uint64_t if the platform supports it.
>
> It follows that the combination of C99 and POSIX that we've chosen as
> out porting baseline requires int64_t/uint64_t to exist.
>
> There is some fairly nasty code in NTP's calendaring library to work
> around the absence of a true 64-bit integral type.  Is it time to rip
> that code out?
>
> Or, to put it differently, can anyone think of a compiler/platform
> combination we care about that is 32-bit-only?
>
> Data points: GCC and clang both conform to C99 and have 64-bit long long,
> whatever the underlying hardware platform.
>
> The ARM ABI requires that "long long" be 64 bits even though the
> underlying hardware word length is 32.
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