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If you want to learn more about it: - The reason the Unix world chose to have "long" as 64 bits: https://unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html https://unix.o
by cesarb 5y ago
If you want to learn more about it:
- The reason the Unix world chose to have "long" as 64 bits: https://unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html https://unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html
- The reason the Windows world chose to keep "long" as 32 bits: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36...
- bvrmn 5y agoIt's fascinating. Win chose LLP64 because pinned LONG to 32bit width in various format headers.