Is "long" still useful in C?
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- It's not the largest integer type anymore now that there's "long long".
- It's not a fixed-width type: It's 32 bits on some platforms and 64 on others.
- It's not necessarily the same size as a pointer (for example, on 64-bit Windows)
So, does "long" have any meaning anymore? Is there ever a reason to declare a long instead of a ptrdiff_t or int64_t?
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