Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Making it unsigned long on a 32-bit machine will make no > > difference. Making it unsigned int on a 64-bit machine will waste four > > bytes. > > No, it won't waste any bytes at all. It won't save any either. > > But if someone comes along later and wants to add another int to that > structure, they won't know that your field was needlessly made a long, and > they'll then waste another eight bytes.
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