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From: mvm@jedi.harris-atd.com (Matt Mahoney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 64 bit architectures and C/C++
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Date: 29 Apr 91 13:13:23 GMT
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When I need to specify bits, I'm usually forced to make the 
following assumptions:

	char	8 bits
	short	16 bits
	long	32 bits

since this is true on most machines.  Anything else would probably break
a lot of code.

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Matt Mahoney, mvm@epg.harris.com
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