signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)

[Joe Buck]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:10:26PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >>> - sizeof(int) == 4, sizeof(long long) == 8
> >>> 
> >>> - sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *) == sizeof(void (*)())

> >>   And what about 64 bit architectures?  Your assumptions are already
> >> widely invalid and only going to get more so.
> > 
> > No, all of Olivier's assumptions are valid on LP64 as well as ILP32
> > architectures.
> 
>   Well, they're invalid on ILP64, but I guess Cray and Alpha T3E aren't very
> widespread platforms.  But we can expect that ILP64 will become more widely
> used in the future, when the migration from 32-bit platforms starts to
> become nothing more than a distant memory, can't we?

No, it's going to be LP64 (with I=32), and I don't see a reason for that
ever to go away.  32-bit integers are going to remain useful types, and
LP64 architectures finally have char = 8, short = 16, int = 32, long = 64,
which is too useful to break.  Why would anyone now switch int to 64?