Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> You do. They just wrote into the standard that there's a header file that 
> comes with the compiler that says "Hey, when he says uint64_t, he means long 
> long unsigned int".

> You can't declare a 64-bit integer. You can use someone else's declaration 
> that the standard says gives you a 64-bit integer in terms of 
> compiler-dependent long long unsigned int sorts of things.

  Again with your fixation about "someone else's" declaration.

  Whether uint64_t is declared in a header file or whether it's a reserved
keyword supported by the compiler directly makes little difference. It's
*standard* in any case. You can use it safely.

  (And besides, nowhere it is said that 'long long' must be 64 bits in size.)

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