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## 9.141 LongestInt

### Synopsis

    type
      LongestInt = LongInt;  { might get bigger than LongInt someday }

### Description

``LongestInt'` is GPC's longest-possible signed integer type. Currently, this is the same as section 9.144 LongInt. On most platforms it is 64 bits wide and thus has a range of ``-9223372036854775808..9223372036854775807'`.

There are lots of other integer types in GPC, see section 8.2.3 Integer Types.

### Conforming to

``LongestInt'` is a GNU Pascal extension.

### Example

    program LongestIntDemo;
    var
      a: LongestInt;
    begin
      a := 42;
      WriteLn (a)
    end.

### See also

section 8.2.3 Integer Types, section 8.2.10.1 Subrange Types.

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