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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: C machine
Message-ID: <6936@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 02:51:08 GMT
References: <7535@alice.UUCP> <8226@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <461@auvax.UUCP> <9961@mimsy.UUCP> <166@teletron.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <166@teletron.UUCP> andrew@teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott) writes:
>Why would a compiler vendor for the 68000 choose a 32 bit size for an int?

To make it easier to port sloppily-written VAX code.