Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Of Standards and Inventions: A Cautionary Tale
Message-ID: <10353@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 11 Apr 88 14:34:52 GMT
References: <10949@mimsy.UUCP> <1525@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <7637@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <7637@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
| [...]
| We didn't want to mandate that the preprocessor be integrated into the
| language parser proper.  I agree that the language would be nicer if
| it WERE so integrated, but for historical reasons it wasn't.

  This would be true for sizeof a user type or variable, but certainly
not for a predefined type, such as sizeof int. With programs traveling
between 32 bit machines and 16 bit machines (286, 11s) I want to say:
	#if	sizeof int < 32
	#define INT	long
	#else
	#define INT	int
	#endif
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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