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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 32bit = 16bit x 16bit
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 18:30:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 18:30:59 1987
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References: <1912@gryphon.CTS.COM> <3294@sol.ARPA>
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3294@sol.ARPA> crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>In article <1912@gryphon.CTS.COM> mhatter@pnet02.CTS.COM
>(Patrick E. Hughes) writes:
>>I might suggest one thing if you plan on porting many C programs: Don't Use
>NO!  Char, short, and long do change size.  The only thing you can rely on is
>that sizeof char <= sizeof short <= sizeof int <= sizeof long.  If you want
>portable programs, DO NOT USE BASIC TYPES.  At the top of the program, define a

We at the Banzai Institute always use typedefs :-)

Ours are stored in the include file exec/types.h

To maintain readability, however, the names were a bit a bit boring, ie

LONG, ULONG, WORD, UWORD, BYTE, UBYTE, and VOID.

			andy
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