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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Context Variables
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 17:24:09 EST
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[Not food]

I thought the phrase "scalar data types" included floats and doubles.
Those can certainly be longer than a long.  Double usually is.

As others have noted, there is no guarantee that a (char *) is not longer
than a long, and it could be on reasonable (my opinion) architectures.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108