Not true. I''m pretty sure long long is not ANSI C yet, positive that it wasn''t when MSVC 6.0 was released. And MSVC IS an ANSI compiler. It uses some Microsoft extensions which make it not necessarily compatible with all ANSI compilers right out of the box, but it supports all ANSI data types. If you use the /Za switch on the compiler, it becomes a true ANSI C compiler and the Microsoft extensions generate errors or warnings.

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Krippy

IA-64 was a bad example, I admit. However, the principle I was trying to demonstrate is correct--that we must never make assumptions as Dean Harding reinforced.