Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: int divided by unsigned.
Message-ID: <1989Jul12.162749.839@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jul11.215930.9042@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <13983@lanl.gov>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 16:27:49 GMT

In article <13983@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>...distinct data types should differ from each other in predictable
>ways...

They do.  Barring truly peculiar machines, long is longer than short, and
int is whichever of the two is more efficient.  (The latter is *important*,
because for many housekeeping variables you don't care much about the
range but you want speed.)
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