Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: (Guy) HARRIS FLAME Re: SHORT vs. INT Message-ID: <1466@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 08:50:38 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1466 Posted: Fri Sep 13 08:50:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 16:55:00 EDT References: <1390@brl-tgr.ARPA> <687@sfmag.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 5 > The C language guarantees only that "short" is no longer than "long". There > is no guarantee of any width of "short", "int", or "long" other than that! X3J11 guarantees that shorts are AT LEAST 16 bits and longs are AT LEAST 32 bits.