> A 'plain' int object has the natural size suggested by the architecture of the execution environment.Shouldn't they be 64 bits on most modern systems then?
On x86-64, you need an extra prefix to do 64-bit operations (while 64-bit addressing is the default), so it's a question of "are you sure you need the 64 bits and 32 isn't enough?"
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Shouldn't they be 64 bits on most modern systems then?
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