Changing intobject to use int rather than long

[Hrvoje Niksic]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> "Christian Heimes" <lists at cheimes.de> wrote in message 
> news:fkainq$61f$1 at ger.gmane.org...
> | Terry Reedy wrote:
> | > Good idea.  I think people who moved to 64 bits to get 64 bits would be
> | > upset if they did not ;-).
> |
> | Windows X64 users still get 32bit ints. The long datatype is 32bit even
> | on the 64bit version of Windows.
>
> Yes, anyone expecting to get 64 bit ints from Windows would be
> upset.

Why?  Using only 32 bits doesn't make the structure any smaller
because of pointer alignment.