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From: steven@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Question about short/int/long
Message-ID: <6452@boring.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 12:53:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 12:53:20 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Jun-85 06:36:34 EDT
Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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A while ago someone claimed that there was a fundamental problem with
implementing short/int/long as all different (eg 16 bit shorts, 32 bit ints,
64 bit longs). I now can't remember what the problem was: could someone
remind me what it was about please?

Send mail: I'll summarise.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax