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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard int sizes
Message-ID: <761@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 04:26:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.761
Posted: Thu May  7 04:26:15 1987
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In article <4632@utcsri.UUCP>, flaps@utcsri.UUCP writes:
> So what that "#define INTPTR int *" doesn't work?  The original
> author never claimed it did!  "#define int16 int" works fine!

Until you want to shadow it:

typedef int int16;
foo()
{ typedef struct foo int16;
....
}

works, but

#define int16 int
foo()
{ typedef struct foo int16;
....
}

doesn't.

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

I know.  I consider it a bug, or at best a misfeature.

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)