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From: greg@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: standardizing integral type sizes
Message-ID: <4555@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 15:56:42 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsri.4555
Posted: Sat Apr 11 15:56:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 20:35:34 EST
References: <791@xanth.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Lines: 17
Summary: 

In article <791@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP writes:
>One proposal might be:
>	char	 8 bits
>	short	16 bits
>	int	32 bits
>	long	64 bits
>
>Having compilers on 16-bit machines generate code to handle 64-bit long's may
>be cumbersome...

Not anywhere near as cumbersome as having those same compilers generate code
to handle 32-bit ints.

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