Coding standards on 64-bit platforms

Use this information to learn about coding standards on 64-bit platforms and the preferred data types.

Preferred data types

These types never change size and are available on both 32-bit and 64-bit IBM® MQ platforms:

Table 1. Data type names and lengths
Name Length
MQLONG 4 bytes
MQULONG 4 bytes
MQINT32 4 bytes
MQUINT32 4 bytes
MQINT64 8 bytes
MQUINT64 8 bytes