"Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> On Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:55:46 Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> "Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> > long long is 128 bits on 64-bit Linux.
>>
>> Are you sure about this?  I think we already had this discussion...
>
> If it isn't, then whatever that discussion was obviously didn't stick in 
> my
> head.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

long double (aka real, a much better name) is 128 bits (including padding) 
on some platforms/compilers, I'm pretty sure long long is 64 bits in every 
x86-64 memory model.  Some compilers do however support 128 bit integer 
types on some platforms. 


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