C Sharp and the CLR, It's Exponential, Right?

Long in C sharp is 64 bit. The short that you have there would be like an int 62. So what happens if you write a program that uses a long variable and you try to run that thing on a 32 bit system? I don't know. It still works. And that's because the CLR is designed such that it will basically store that thing in two memory locations.