Could we get a LP64 version identifier?

[Joel C. Salomon]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>> [1]: Hey, x86 technically has 6-byte pointers if you count segments as 
>> part of the pointer (which would be mostly useless on currently 
>> popular operating systems though).
> 
> It does, but I know of no compiler that supports that (C, C++, or any 
> other), and code that needs to deal with that tends to be assembler.

Shouldn’t most (ancient) 16-bit x86 compilers have support for “near” 
and “far” pointers? Seems this should just require some updating of that 
concept.

—Joel Salomon