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From: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MPW C annoyances....
Message-ID: <1081@csib.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 13:50:40 EST
Article-I.D.: csib.1081
Posted: Tue Mar 31 13:50:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 07:29:00 EST
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Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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In article <12500007@acf4.UUCP> spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector) writes:
>
>more MPW-isms:
> ...
>int			32			Range -2,147,483,648 to .....
>
>Whats more is that Apple (!!), in Inside Macintosh states that integers are
>*16 bits*!  (see Inside Macintosh, Vol. I, Pg.86, "Pascal Data Types") 
>
>I mean, I may be too touchy, but this is really annoying.  Bill Duvall started
>this silly trend of 32bit ints on a Mac with MacC, and he was wrong too.  
>
>Hmmph!  Grumble, grumble.
>David HM Spector

David,
32 bit ints for C on the 68K started when UNIX was ported over.  All of the
UNIX C compilers use 32 bits so that's the defacto standard.  Since
MPW is a port of the Greenhills C compiler which used 32 bits int, it's
not surpising that they kept it for MPW.  So the mac compilers that use
16 bits are the exception, not the rule for 68K C compilers.  I agree
it is a pain and in the future I'm going to use typedefs wherever the
size of the int is important.

Jerry Whitnell
Communications Solutions, Inc.