> > imo, with these considerations in mind, there's no practical way to > > increase int beyond 32 bits in c... > > Incidentally, int is 64 bits on my amd64 system. What system is that? On an Opteron Red Had Enterprise Linux WS release 3 with gcc-3.2.3 the sizeof(int) is 4, and sizeof(long) is 8. Zoli