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From: flaps@utcsri.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard int sizes
Message-ID: <7010@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 10:56:54 EST
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In article <764@hoqax.UUCP> twb@hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE) writes:
:>> If "machine has compiler that uses 16 bits for 'short'"
:>> #define int16  short
:>>
:>> If "machine has compiler that uses 16 bits for 'int'"
:>> #define int16  int
:>
:>It is not a good idea to use #define where you mean typedef.
:>Think about the difference between:
:>
:>typedef int *INT_PTR;
:>INT_PTR a, b;
:>
:>and
:>
:>#define INT_PTR int *
:>INT_PTR a, b;

IRRELEVANT!!!
So what that "#define INTPTR int *" doesn't work?  The original author never
claimed it did!  "#define int16 int" works fine!

In fact, 4.2bsd stdio.h contains "#define FILE struct _iobuf" (and so
do many other stdio.h's, I believe).

--

Alan J Rosenthal

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