In article <199512220102.RAA17168@toccata.fugue.com>,
Ted Lemon  <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
> 
> [...] It is
> permissible for sizeof (long) to be less than sizeof (int), and this
> is an approach that has been used by several vendors to deal with this
> problem.

Did you say this backward? K&R2 says (sect 2.2) that "int [...] is no
longer than long". I can't find the relevant section in ANSI, but I'm
sure it concurs. It would also be counterintuitive for "long int" to give
something shorter than saying just "int". Saying "make it longer" should
do so or keep it the same -- making it shorter is wrong.