Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 64 bit ints
Summary: Oops.
Message-ID: <425@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 22:42:49 GMT
References: <6264@june.cs.washington.edu> <225800084@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <8811@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <8811@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <418@sdrc.UUCP> scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones [me]) writes:
> >The draft ANSI standard requires that int
> >be the same size as either short or long; it may not be a third,
> >distinct, size of integer.
> 
> Where do you see that?  Section 3.1.2.5 requires that an int be able to
> hold all integers in the range INT_MIN to INT_MAX and that its range
> be no less than that of short int and no more than that of long int.
> Nowhere do I find a requirement that
> sizeof(int)==sizeof(short)||sizeof(int)==sizeof(long).

Well, shucks.  I swear I remember a vote to that effect, but I'll
be darned if I can find any trace of the requirement in the
Draft either.  Either I imagined it or it got lost somewhere --
the first seems most likely, I'm afraid.

Sorry for any confusion I caused.

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