Integers on 64-bit machines

Denis Washington <dwashington@gmx.net>
Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:43:35 +0200

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From: Denis Washington <dwashington@gmx.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:43:35 +0200
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: arithmetic, design, comment
Posted-Date: 03 Jul 2007 22:09:41 EDT

Hello,


I'm currently developing a little C-like programming language as a
hobby project. After having implemented the basic integral integer
types like known from Java/C# (with fixed sizes for each type), I
thought a bit about 64-bit machines and wanted to ask: if you develop
on a 64-bit machine, would it be preferable to still leave the
standard integer type ("int") 32-bit, or would it be better to have
"int" grow to 64 bit? In this case, I could have an
architecture-dependent "int" type along with fixed-sized types like
"int8", "int16", "int32" etc.


What do you think?


Cheers,
Denis Washington
[I would make my int type the natural word size of the machine. If people
want a particular size, they can certainly say so. -John]

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