XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
   >Not aware of any platforms that do/did ILP64.   
      
   AFAIK the Cray-1 (1976) was the first 64-bit machine, and C for the   
   Cray-1 and successors implemented, as far as I can determine   
      
   type      bits   
   char        8   
   short int  64   
   int        64   
   long int   64   
   pointer    64   
      
   ILP64 for Cray is documented in   
   .  For   
   short int, I don't have a direct reference, only the statement   
      
   |Firstly there was the word size, one rather large size fitted all,   
   |integers and floats were represented in 64 bits   
      
      
      
   For the 8-bit characters I found a reference (maybe somewhere else in   
   that document), but I do not find it at the moment.   
      
   Followups set to comp.arch.   
      
   - anton   
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