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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
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Subject: Re: Are the criteria for Unix and PC compilers different?
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Date: 6 Mar 88 19:08:44 GMT
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In article <22314ad9@ralf.home> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>In article <1106@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>, backstro@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Dave White) writes:
>}When will they
>}realize that some of us really want the option of using 32-bit ints to
>}port Unix-born code?

>#define int long

* Does not handle implicit int declarations, such as undeclared functions,
funtion argument promotion, "register i;", etc, etc.

* Does not work on compilers that don't allow #define of a keyword.

>Need I say more?

No, you already made a big enough fool of yourself.
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