🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1995Jul26.032024.21888@sq.sq.com>,
Mark Brader <msb@sq.sq.com> wrote:
> On an implementation where the fastest integral type is also the widest,
> and this type is 8 bytes (and never mind what a byte is), implementers
> may desire to provide 2- and 4-byte integral types.  They don't have to
> shorten int to 4 bytes to do it, nor do they have to provide "long long".
> They can make everyone happy *this* way:
>
>	1 byte     char
>	2 bytes    short
>	4 bytes    __fourbyte /* implementation-defined extension */
>	8 bytes    int
>	8 bytes    long

Note that, on such a system, size_t, wchar_t, and ptrdiff_t cannot be 4
bytes.

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