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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Style guides and portability
Message-ID: <14848@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 14 Jan 91 16:19:36 GMT
References: <1163@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM> <14824@smoke.brl.mil> <BEVAN.91Jan12120920@orca.cs.man.ac.uk>
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In article <BEVAN.91Jan12120920@orca.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
>What about the cases where it is a requirement that a particular int
>MUST be able to hold 32 bit numbers.

The application should use "long" not "int" for such variables.