Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: sizeof (integral types)
Message-ID: <1989Apr19.152303.16281@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <10044@smoke.BRL.MIL> <7.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 89 15:23:03 GMT

In article <7.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP> richard@pantor.UUCP (Richard Sargent) writes:
>Please note that this definition explicitly avoids any claims about the sizes
>of the types except for the "<=" business in the first message.  It most
>definitely does NOT say anything about 8, 16, or 32 bits!  In fact, the
>definition permits implementations of 8 bit longs and others of 32 bit chars!

If you look at the section on implementation limits, however, it effectively
constrains short to be at least 16 bits and long to be at least 32.
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