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From: nicolas@cli52or.edf.fr
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: use only short and long (not int) in struct message
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Date: 9 Jan 91 15:41:05 GMT
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> HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
> 
> >If struct messages contains only short and long (no 'int'),
> >various parts of the system (user code, FS, MM, Kernel etc) can
> >communicate irrespective of wether they are compiled in 16-bit or
> >32-bit mode.
> 
> Why include the assumption that short == 16 bits and long == 32 bits?
> Please use something like int16 and int32 when you mean that.
> This will save you when using a machine where short=16, int=32 and long=64 bits.
> 
> These names should be typedef'ed somewhere.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Klamer
> 
> --
> Klamer Schutte
> Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands
> klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl	{backbone}!mcsun!utrcu1!utep!utelmi01!klamer
> 

How 'long' can be 64 bits ?
Are you speaking of a dialect of C ?
Perhaps D .........