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And, oxymoronically, plain, old long.

In particular, everything but MSVC treats long as 64 bits, but MSVC treats it as 32 bits for backwards compatibility.

However, I haven't used int or long or long long in ten years or so. Thanks to stdint.h support finally making its way to all platforms, it's exclusively sized types like int32_t and uint16_t for me.




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