[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-03-10, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> So /POINTER=64 is default. I should make a note about that.
>
> Curious about long being 64 bit.
>
> So:
>          Alpha & Itanium   x86-64
> short        16             16
> int          32             32
> long         32             64
> long long    64             ?
>
> ?
>
> I guess it is way overdue to always use intxx_t!
>
>:-)
>

Even better is to use uintXX_t unless you really want a signed integer. :-)

A big mistake languages made (IMHO) was to make their integers signed
by default, instead of you needing to ask for a signed integer if you
really needed one.

Simon.

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