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

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From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 12:41

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In article <1995Aug13.144107.21353@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram) writes:
> <halasz@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>Yes, it requires it, if I want to declare a variable of the shortest 'int'
>>that can hold a numeral of so manie digits.  No other feature suggested is
>>useful, and therefore no "atleast:" is reallie needed.

> atleast: certainly *is* needed.

halasz and I had an e-mail conversation after that article:
He is only talking about *syntax* here.  He is saying that the
"atleast:" keyword is not necessary, a shorter syntax would be
sufficient.  Which is of course true.

And I'm sure "digits" means "binary digits" in this context.

-- 
Regards,

Hallvard

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