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as soon as possible and explain to us why this is a problem for you and
how your use case cannot be satisfied properly using a workaround.
## Support for systems without 64 bit data types
curl will *require* support for a 64 bit data type (like `long long` or an
alternative) to build. These days, few systems are used where no such type is
around so the cost of maintaining this support is increasingly unnecessary to
spent effort and time on, while supporting 32 bit values for some of those
fields is complicated and hard to test.
Adding this requirement will make the code simpler, easier to maintain and the
test coverage better. It is a low price too, since virtually no users are
still building curl on such systems.
`long long` was not a standard type until C99, but has been supported by C89
compilers since the 1990s.
Starting in 8.0.0 (March 2023), the plan is to drop support.
## NSS
We remove support for building curl with the NSS TLS library in August 2023.