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Article #2030Re: Why Use 'Int' Instead of 'Long'? (With today's compilers)
From: John Winters
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:27
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:27
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In article <4fve4g$dm8@solutions.solon.com>, Tanmoy Bhattacharya <tanmoy@qcd.Lanl.GOV> wrote: >In article <4fu84r$9f9@solutions.solon.com> Mongkok ><jyetse@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> writes: ><snip> > The size of pointers varies from machine to machine, but the > size of an int is defined in ANSI to be at least 2 chars. And > the size of long int must be strictly bigger than short int, > and must be bigger than or equal to int. > >All these statements are wrong! > I think we could pass, "The size of pointers varies from machine to machine", couldn't we? :-) John -- John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!solon.com!not-for-mail From: John Winters <john@polo.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.moderated Subject: Re: Why Use 'Int' Instead of 'Long'? (With today's compilers) Date: 16 Feb 1996 09:27:43 -0600 Organization: Wallingford Sender: clc@solutions.solon.com Approved: clc@solutions.solon.com Message-ID: <4g27pf$qbl@solutions.solon.com> References: <4fjk00$nss@solutions.solon.com> <4fp1o2$h99@solutions.solon.com> <4fu84r$9f9@solutions.solon.com> <4fve4g$dm8@solutions.solon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com