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Re: Why "long long" doesn't work.

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From: Peter Holzer
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 09:27
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ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

>ffarance@aol.com (FFarance) writes:

>>The problem is when the compilation and the execution environments
>>are different, it becomes hard to produce a header.

>However, this indicates that FFarance didn't quite check what my code
>actually does.  My codes ASKS THE COMPILER about the properties of types.
>What this means is that 
>    if you want to prepare program X on machine A using compiler B
>    with options C to run on machine D,

>    then compile my program on machine A using compiler B
>    with options C and run it on machine D,
>    and use the header it produces there.

D might be an embedded system which cannot produce a header file
(well the toaster it controls could produce a binary encoding of the
header file by spitting out dark and light slices of bread. An imaging
system could then scan in the bread slices and produce a header file :-)

	hp
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