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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Uses of "short" ?
Message-ID: <5246@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 16:03:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 16:03:27 1985
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> If you use the proper C data types, there will be no need to worry
> . . .at all; the code will work on all standard-conforming
> implementations without any change whatsoever. . .

Hmmm. . .last time I looked there were no (as in zero) standard-conforming
implementations (a small side effect of the standard not yet having
been agreed to, no doubt).
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