> only 8GB of RAM lol. We had 32-bit pointers on 386/486 systems in the early '90s, on systems with frequently less than 4MB of RAM. If making pointers 4x big

> only 8GB of RAM lol. We had 32-bit pointers on 386/486 systems in the early '90s, on systems with frequently less than 4MB of RAM. If making pointers 4x bigger on systems with 2000x the amount of memory is a problem, I'm not sure how we're going to be able to solve anything ever again. > Also, it confuses any code that assumes you can convert a pointer to a long (or long long) and back. Well, that's why we invented intptr_t. Back in... checks notes C99. 25 years ago. smh