The long keyword designates a 32-bit integer. It can be preceded by either the keyword signed or the keyword unsigned. The int keyword is optional and can be omitted. To the MIDL compiler, a long integer is signed by default and is synonymous with signed long int. On 32-bit platforms, long is synonymous with int.
The long integer type is one of the base types of the IDL language. The long integer type can appear as a type specifier in const declarations, typedef declarations, general declarations, and function declarators (as a function-return-type specifier and as a parameter-type specifier). For the context in which type specifiers appear, see IDL.
base_types, hyper, int, short, small