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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: data types
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Date: 4 Feb 89 06:45:25 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <2916@hound.UUCP> rkl1@hound.UUCP (K.LAUX) writes:
>	Int	is the default word size on the machine,
>	Long	must be equal to or greater than the size of an Int,
>	Short	must be equal to or less than the size of an Int.

Close, except there is no requirement that "int" be the "natural"
word size, just a recommendation that it be so.  In fact some 64-bit
C implementors have had to agonize over whether to make int 64 bits
or 32.  (The latter to make it easier to port 4BSD VAX code that has
that assumption, or the assumption that long is 32 bits, wired in.)