Re: [Mingw-users] sizeof long

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> IMO, it would be beneficial for the standard to change to using int8,
> int16, int32, etc. so that it was obvious as to what is meant; but, that
> isn't likely to happen anytime soon.

Until then, see
  http://www.boost.org/libs/integer/index.htm
particularly the <cstdint.hpp> header.