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lhf wrote:
> Right: we use long in Lua when we need *at least* 32 bits, which is what
> ANSI C promises about long.

Then why not use the lint32 type already defined, so that the programmer's
requirement is explicit and so that we may configure a different type when a
long is more than 32 bits and possibly inneficient?

-John