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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: data types
Message-ID: <9554@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Feb 89 22:27:24 GMT
References: <3447@sdsu.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3447@sdsu.UUCP> middleto@sdsu.UCSD.EDU (Tom Middleton) writes:
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>Someone suggested to me that the C data types for short and long were
>fixed at 16 and 32 bits respectively

Wrong -- those are the MINIMUM sizes for standard conformance, not the
ONLY sizes allowed.