From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   Something I noticed on the mainframe is that   
   the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit simply   
   involved changing instructions like st (store)   
   to stg (store grand).   
      
   You may as well have an assembler   
   option to do that automatically.   
      
   So you can just code st and tell the   
   assembler whether you want 32 bit integers   
   or 64 bit integers or 1024 bit integers.   
      
   You could probably do the same thing   
   with 16 bit integers except you run   
   out of memory if you want to   
   do much of anything so segmentation   
   needs to be added to the mix.   
      
   So you may only need one compiler,   
   assembler and linker and os and c   
   library, all doing s370 and you have a   
   completely portable suite for   
   eternity.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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