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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof (integral types)
Message-ID: <10064@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Apr 89 21:26:35 GMT
References: <12005@paris.ics.uci.edu> <10044@smoke.BRL.MIL> <29127@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <29127@apple.Apple.COM> austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
-In article <10044@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
->longs are at least 32 bits.
-longs are guaranteed to be at least 24 bits (according to C++, sec 2.3.1)

That's nice, but Mr. Schmidt was inquiring about the C standard, not C++.