[vorbis-dev] longs

[Bob Bradley]

>Then you shoot yourself in the foot on any platform where that size is not 
>most
>efficient.  What I was thinking was a type that meant 'equal to or greater 
>than
>word width n'.  Ogg doesn;t need 32 bits for long, it need *at least* 32 
>bits.
>This is a subtle difference from your suggestion, but an extremely important
>one.
>
>C is the way it is for a reason, even if the decided upon spec turned out 
>to be
>'not entirely sufficient'.  Forcing an Alpha to use 32 bit ints, for example,
>is a good way to kill integer performace (as Windows NT for Alpha partially
>demostrates).

I agree. Using the native integer size via a typedef that is documented 
as providing at least the necessary size (but possibly more) would seem 
to provide a good solution for both compatibility and performance.

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