revert r6278 and r6277 - if possible we should not keep the trunk dysfunctional for more than a few hours (I need alugrid)

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specify types as typedefs.

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* update Makefiles and configure

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pointing this out.)

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Otherwise on some 64bit platforms we run into trouble.

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      assert(globalid.id(*e) >= 0);
don't work.

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returns just the lowest 32 bits

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