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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Time for 64-bit longs?
Message-ID: <854@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Jan-87 14:21:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 31 14:21:39 1987
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Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
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In article <291@mtxinu.UUCP> ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
>The problem is not that the VAX code assumes int == long (it often
>does make that assumption, but those are bugs) but that 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.

Please quote chapter and verse of K&R or the ANSI draft standard.
I don't recall seeing this anywhere.  K&R only guarantees

	sizeof (short) <= sizeof (int) <= sizeof (long)

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