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From: doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal)
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Subject: Re: xx vs. uu
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Date: 21 Feb 90 17:32:27 GMT
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In article <90052.022126CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
->K&R2 [ANSI-standard] C specifies:
->
->   "int" (neither far nor short) implicitly means "short int"
->
->   "short int"s are 16 bits
->
->Your compiler is broken.
->
->
->Virtually,
->- Charles Martin Hannum II       "Klein bottle for sale ... inquire within."
->    (That's Charles to you!)     "To life immortal!"
->  cmh117@psuvm.{bitnet,psu.edu}  "No noozzzz izzz netzzzsnoozzzzz..."
->  c9h@psuecl.{bitnet,psu.edu}    "Mem'ry, all alone in the moonlight ..."

Sorry but my copy of K&R2 says something different.  I quote from page 36.
" There are only a few basic data types in C:
...
  int     an integer, typically reflecting the natural size
          of integers on the host machine
...
The intent is that short and long should provide different lengths of
integers where practical; int will normally be the natural size for a
particular machine.  short is often 16 bits, long 32 bits, and int
either 16 or 32 bits."

Your book is broken.

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Doug O'Neal                  Distributed Systems Programmer
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