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From: joss@ur-tut (Josh Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Of Standards and Inventions: A Cautionary Tale
Message-ID: <1758@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 01:34:48 GMT
References: <10949@mimsy.UUCP> <1525@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <7637@brl-smoke.ARPA> <10353@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: joss@tut.cc.rochester.edu (Josh Sirota)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Computing Center
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In article <10353@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>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

Christ!  Use long all the time ... a simple
	#define INT	long
would suffice, if you insist on having this INT thing at all.

Why would you want to do this?  If you want 4 byte values, specify long
on ANY machine.

					Josh
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