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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 32 bit longs
Message-ID: <14920@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 21 Jan 91 22:03:59 GMT
References: <1991Jan13.182655.17672@athena.mit.edu> <1291@mti.mti.com> <231@nazgul.UUCP>
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In article <231@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>P.S. I prefer stuff like:
>	#if sizeof(long) == 4
>	...
>	#else
>	#error This algorithm needs to be ported
>	#endif
>but ANSI C seems to have torpedoed that.

I don't know why you say "torpedoed" -- that usage was never proper C,
was not supported by the UNIX C implementations, and would require
significantly more complex preprocessing, assuming that one could even
specify precisely how to fit it into the phases of translation.