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From: dlnash@ut-ngp.UUCP (Donald L. Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: size of int & the 68K (was: standardizing integral type sizes)
Message-ID: <5108@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-May-87 11:09:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  1 11:09:02 1987
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In article <7981@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > >It loses us the current semantics of "int", which are "the form of integer
> > >that is most efficient on the machine in question".  ...
> > 
> > Henry, can you provide a paragraph number in dpANS that says that? Or
> > a page/paragraph number from K&R. I agree that that's what it _should_
> > be, but haven't been able to find anything to prove it.
> 
> Without having searched them carefully, I would say that there probably
> isn't anything that spells it out precisely.  

Look in K&R p.34:

    int     an integer, typically reflecting the natural size
            of integers on the host machine.

I don't know what dpANS has to say about it, since I don't have a copy.

				Don Nash

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