Are 8-byte ints guaranteed?

[Tim Prince]

Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Hello world,
> 
> are there any platforms where gcc doesn't support 8-byte ints?
> Can a front end depend on this?
> 
> This would make life easier for Fortran, for example, because we
> could use INTEGER(KIND=8) for a lot of interfaces without having
> to bother with checks for the presence of KIND=8 integers.
> 
No doubt, there are such platforms, although I doubt there is sufficient 
interest in running gfortran on them.  Support for 64-bit integers on 
common 32-bit platforms is rather inefficient, when it is done by pairs 
of 32-bit integers.