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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C machine
Message-ID: <6933@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 02:30:24 GMT
References: <7535@alice.UUCP> <8226@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <461@auvax.UUCP> <163@bhjat.UUCP> <9961@mimsy.UUCP> <1987Dec28.163403.24137@sq.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1987Dec28.163403.24137@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>"long long" is allowed by the dpANS as a "common extension".

I don't think it is "allowed" in an ANSI-conforming implementation,
because "long long" violates a Constraint in section 3.5.2 and thus
requires a diagnostic.  However, it's hard to imagine this extension
breaking any strictly conforming program, so it would be a "safe"
extension to make.