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From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Absolute size of 'short'
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Message-ID: <1199@ficc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 14:30:03 GMT
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Not trying to start a war or anything, but how far do you really have
to stretch the language to allow:

	int	a:16;

outside of a struct? This would let you solve all the "how big is a short"
type problems with ease.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation, sugar!ficc!peter.
"You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?"
"Well, I couldn't afford another deLorean."
"But how do you ever get it up to 88 miles per hour????"