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From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW C int size
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.103115.24170@nada.kth.se>
Date: 18 Nov 90 10:31:15 GMT
References: <1278@ucl-cs.uucp> <505@nitrex.UUCP> <HANCHE.90Nov17172757@hufsa.imf.unit.no>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <HANCHE.90Nov17172757@hufsa.imf.unit.no> hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes:
>In article <505@nitrex.UUCP> leyser@nitrex.UUCP (Jeff Leyser) writes:

>   main() {
>	   printf("An int is %d bytes\n",sizeof(int));
>   }

>Actually, that code isn't portable.  What if sizeof() returns a long?
>It often does.  Of course, it is often the case that int == long, so

The

printf ( "%ld" , ( long ) sizeof ( int ) ) ;

should work. If it's unsigned or signed doesn't matter, since
the result very seldom is > 8 ( or negative :-)

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