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From: msb@sq.uucp (Mark Brader)
Date: Thu, 7-Jan-88 20:19:20 EST
Message-ID: <1988Jan7.201920.26445@sq.uucp>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C machine
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Reply-To: msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto

I wrote:
> >"long long" is allowed by the dpANS as a "common extension".

Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn> (gwyn@brl.arpa) replied:
> I don't think it is "allowed" in an ANSI-conforming implementation,
> because "long long" violates a Constraint ...

Agreed.  I should have said that it was *mentioned* as a "common extension"
(specifically, in section A.6.5.6); this might be interpreted as a hint that
if you are going to have such a type, that is a good name to call it.
Actually A.6.5.6 renders it as "long long int".   Anyway, the whole matter
of "common extensions" is not part of the Draft proper.