How should ObjC encode 'long'?

[Ziemowit Laski]

Currently, ObjC encodes 'long' as 'l' (and 'unsigned long' as 'L'), but 
only if
sizeof(long) == sizeof(int).  On LP64 targets, where sizeof(long) == 2 
* sizeof(int),
'long' and 'unsigned long' get encoded as 'q' and 'Q', respectively, 
instead.

Personally, I tend to think that this is broken, and that long should 
always be 'l',
regardless of its size.  However, I can also see an ABI argument (esp. 
in the context
of distributed objects) that would lead to the opposite conclusion.

What do you all think?

Thanks,

--Zem
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