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From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: int32 et al. (was: Style guides and portabili
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.110141@mccall.com>
Date: 18 Jan 91 17:01:41 GMT
References: <26@christmas.UUCP> <867@TALOS.UUCP>
Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
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In article <867@TALOS.UUCP>, jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) writes:
>:Requirements:                   Use:
>: 1 <= bits <=  8, save space    char
>: 9 <= bits <= 16, save space    short
>: 1 <= bits <= 16, save time     int
>:17 <= bits <= 32                long

That's the way I do it. Note, however, that if you are dealing with
signed numbers, you MUST specify signed char, since the machine may
implement a char as unsigned. 
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