Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What breaks? (was Re: 64 bit longs?)
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.025706.7152@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan15.202123.14223@gjetor.geac.COM> <14890@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Jan18.044948.27943@zoo.toronto.edu> <14896@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 1991 02:57:06 GMT

In article <14896@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>There is no portable way to declare a type with *exactly* 32 bits, ...
>
>And there is no guarantee that such a type even exists...

In that case, that machine is going to have real trouble declaring, say,
a TCP header structure.  It is always possible to find machines so badly
broken that you can't cope with them.
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