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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 32 bit C Comps and Long
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Date: 21 Oct 89 15:47:23 GMT
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In article <1224@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) writes:
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>  [ sarcasm and arithmetic deleted ]
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>Someone asked about a C compiler that supported 32bit ints of 386
>machine.  They answer as I see it is yes, they all do.

I think you're missing an important distinction.  It may be true that all
compilers support *long* ints of that size, but not all of them use 32 bits
for plain ints.  K&R does not require this, after all.

It may be that all compilers use 32 bits for ints, but I don't know and I
don't try to keep all compilers running here.