[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/13/2023 9:32 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

That is not really C specific.

Fortran INTEGER is signed. Pascal INTEGER is signed (even though Pascal
got CARDINAL for unsigned).

Java does not have unsigned integers.

Arne