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From: kruger@16bits.dec.com (I've got 50nS memory. What did you say?)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: ints
Message-ID: <8802012142.AA16345@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 2 Feb 88 00:39:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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While the spirit of C is to make the size of an int convenient for the
architecture on which it is implemented, the standard merely states
that it is implementation dependent. However, short ints are guaranteed
to be >= 16 bits, and short int <= int <= long int.

dov