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From: rmacgreg@cs.strath.ac.uk (Sorcerer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: more that 32 flag array testing
Message-ID: <4849@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Oct 90 13:32:41 GMT
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Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
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>K&R2: "... they may be stored only in int's (or, equivalently,
>unsigned's ..."
> 
>How would you declare a bitfield wider than the widest
>available int?
> 
Good question...  I dunno, but maybe (just maybe) those nice people at ANSII
decided to change it so you could have bitfields as large as you like (not
very probable, but you never know) :-)

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