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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hyperc more questions...
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Date: 23 Mar 90 07:39:54 GMT
References: <9678@wpi.wpi.edu> <2274@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <2274@tellab5.tellabs.com> toth@tellab5.tellabs.com (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes:
>NOTE: While most advanced C compliers implement 'long' as twice the 
>   size of the 'int' variable, the K&R standard does not require it,
>   from 'A Book on C' by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl.

The American National Standard for C requires in effect 32 or more bits
in the representation of a long int.

This is one of several reasons why I recommend not trying to use Hyper C
for serious program development.