Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!datangua
From: datangua@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Tanguay)
Subject: Re: int32 et al.
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 12:03:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.120327.17759@watmath.waterloo.edu>
References: <1991Jan19.185101.27554@odi.com> <14905@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Jan21.135216.23447@odi.com>
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In article <1991Jan21.135216.23447@odi.com> benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes:
|>But you didn't address the problems I pointed out, for example the
|>complete lack of ANY type whose size if precisely 32 bits in some
|>implementations.
|Well, if we ever hit such a beast, there's always
|typedef char [4] int32;

Which still isn't (necessarily) 32 bits. There is no guarantee that a char
is exactly 8 bits (36 bit machines use 9 bit chars, and I wouldn't be
surprised to see a 16 bit char on a 16 bit word machine like the
Honeywell DPS-6).
-- 
David Tanguay            Software Development Group, University of Waterloo