[issue13965] Windows 64-bit installer actually installing a 32-bit version

[Nadeem Vawda]

Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.vawda at gmail.com> added the comment:

64-bit Windows (or at least Visual C++) uses the LLP64 model, so a long
is 32 bits wide (the only 64-bit integer type being long long) - see
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#64-bit_data_models>

Since Python's int is documented as being implemented on top of C's long,
this behaviour appears to be correct (if surprising).

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