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• Subject: Re: 64-bit Java
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:33:38 -0400 (EDT)

Alaric Snell scripsit:

> Not 
> sure what Java's like on a 64 bit platform, but I'll be very disappointed if 
> it makes ints 64 bits long...

Of course not.  Ints will be 32 bits as far as any Java program can
tell.  A 64-bit VM may use 64 bits to implement ints, but it will
have to mask (trivially) the result from Java code.

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