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Article #3694Re: Why "long long" doesn't work.
From: Daniel Villeneuve
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 13:39
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 13:39
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In article <409fr9$guo@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: > Environment enquiry problem: > I have a type, or a variable of that type. > How do I find out its properties _portably_? > This includes but is not limited to things like minimum value, maximum > value, printf format, scanf format, number of bits, representation (is > it 2s-comp, 1s-comp, sign-and-magnitude, ieee 754, whatever), ... The required alignment of that type is also of interest, when writing a specialized malloc() portably. gcc's __alignof__ extension may be used as a model/example. Daniel Villeneuve GERAD/Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!CC.UMontreal.CA!news From: danielv@crt0.crt (Daniel Villeneuve) Subject: Re: Why "long long" doesn't work. In-Reply-To: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au's message of 9 Aug 1995 15:07:53 +1000 Message-ID: <DANIELV.95Aug10093924@crt0.crt> Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews) Organization: Universite de Montreal References: <3uvcje$c3q@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <3v34qv$hev@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3va1o3$aas@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <3vq4p5$8dv@wsrcom.wsr.ac.at> <409fr9$guo@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 13:39:24 GMT