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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof (integral types)
Message-ID: <29193@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 89 18:16:55 GMT
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In article <10064@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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++.

Considering that C++ is an *EXTENSION* of C (and was written with K&R as
active participants), the fact that C++ talks about longs as at least 24 bits
is true for C as well.


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