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Subject: Re: Re: Time for 64-bit longs?
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 19:01:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 30 19:01:40 1987
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> ... C defines
> only two sizes of integer: long and short.  Int may be either,
> depending on the implementation, but it must be one or the other.
> 
> Other people have used the "long long" hack, too.
> 
> -- 
> Ed Gould                    mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA  94710  USA
> {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed   +1 415 644 0146

"Up to three sizes of integer, declared short int, int, and long int,
available.  Longer integers provide no less storage than shorter ones,
but the implementation MAY [my emphasis] make either short integers,
long integers, or both, equivalent to plain integers."

K&R, pp. 182-3.
-- 
Jim Shankland
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