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From: aeusesef@csun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard int sizes
Message-ID: <567@csun.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 17:45:53 EST
Article-I.D.: csun.567
Posted: Fri Apr 10 17:45:53 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Apr-87 02:00:37 EST
References: <6759@brl-adm.ARPA> <230@ems.UUCP>
Reply-To: aeusesef@csun.UUCP (Sean Eric Fagan)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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In article <230@ems.UUCP> mark@ems.UUCP (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
>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.
[various proposals for C sizes]
>How about those machines out there with
>64 bit words?  Or to make it really interesting, toss a Cyber into the 
>forray with it's 60 bit word.
>Mark H. Colburn    UUCP: ihnp4!meccts!ems!mark, mark@ems.uucp      
Actually, in thinking about porting an un-Small C (we got just about everything
except for typing the changed code in...), we decided that it would be easier
to make char's,  int's, long's, short's, and float's the same length
(double's could be longer).  We always thought how amusing it would be to
have 2**59 possible characters...

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