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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: Uses of "short" ?
Message-ID: <1549@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 15:19:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 15:19:40 1985
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References: <486@houxh.UUCP> <3400008@ndm20> <2285@sjuvax.UUCP> <1924@brl-tgr.ARPA>
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Summary: 

In article <1924@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
>> I am inclined to prefer the use of int16, int32, int64, int8, char.
>
>int16 => short
>int32 => long
>int64 => not a primitive data type on all implementations
>int8  => signed char
>char  => char
>
>Why add more symbols when you already have what is needed in the language?

For clarity and portability.

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