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Subject: Re: Standard int sizes
Message-ID: <103@asi.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 12:07:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 12 12:07:05 1987
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Organization: Assessment Systems, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
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Summary: Wouldn't it be interesting to be able to defint INT size?


I am not actually suggesting a change to the C language, so please do not
flame the following.

Wouldn't it be interesting to be able to specify the size of an integer
variable.  Perhaps a method like the one used in IBM's fortran 66 compiler.
It was actually an IBM extension to the language i believe.

	int*4	value1;			/* 4 byte integer */
	int*2	value2;			/* 2 byte integer */
	int*1	value3;			/* 1 byte integer */

The only integer sizes which were implemented on the IBM were those which
made sense to the instruction set (I.E. word, half-word, and byte).

It would seem that if the above definitions were used on a machine which
did not support that particular size, a syntax/semantics error would be
appropriate.

Just some more fuel for the fire.

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Metro T. Sauper, Jr.                              Assessment Systems, Inc.
Director, Remote Systems Development              210 South Fourth Street
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