> >A lot.  You'd also slow things down a lot on 32-bit platforms.  I
> >don't really see why this would be a good thing.
> 
> Well, it depends - why would we use long when we don't need it?  :)

because, believe it or not, a there's still a lot of code around that
includes assumption that 'int' may not be 32 bits...

_we_ might not, but it's not just _us_ that we're talking about here.


There's a reason why porting so much software to the alpha was/is so
hard, you know... 



chris