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From: flaps@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard int sizes
Message-ID: <4554@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 02:59:40 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsri.4554
Posted: Sat Apr 11 02:59:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 20:13:30 EST
References: <6759@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto
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In article <6759@brl-adm.ARPA> dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa writes:
>kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu (kyle jones) wrote:
>>I would like to see the sizes of C integral types standardized.
>>
>>One proposal might be:
>>
>>	char	 8 bits
>>	short	16 bits
>>	int	32 bits
>>	long	64 bits
>
>I'd rather have:
>	short    8 bits
>	int	16 bits
>	long	32 bits
>and something like "xlong" for 64 bits.

How about:
	char	7 bits
	short	12 bits
	int	15.6 bits
	long	5*PI*e bits


...  For Pete's sake.

-- 

Alan J Rosenthal

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