Maybe so; I haven't tried. Probably a lot less code depends on unsigned long wrapping at 2⁶⁴ than used to depend on unsigned int wrapping at 2¹⁶, and we got pa

Maybe so; I haven't tried. Probably a lot less code depends on unsigned long wrapping at 2⁶⁴ than used to depend on unsigned int wrapping at 2¹⁶, and we got past that. But stability standards were lower then. Any code that runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit LP64 systems can't be too dependent on the exact sizeof long, and sizeof long already isn't sizeof int the way it was on 32-bit platforms.