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roelofs@pan.arc.nasa.gov (Greg Roelofs) writes:
>But what will you do on a machine where shorts are 64 bits by default,
>but can be 24 or 46 bits via a compiler switch?

This is certainly why they did it.  Unfortunately, their solution is really
stupid.  It isn't at all clear to me that SHORT is defined to be a certain
number of bits, when short isn't.

A better solution would have been typedefs such as

typedef char int8
typedef unsigned char uint8
typedef short int16
typedef unsigned short uint16

and so forth.  Then, you can use "intxx" to get a certain number of bits, and
always be SURE what you are getting, and those typedefs can get set correctly
for any given architecture.

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