Precision Of Integral Types

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From: Ray Mitchell
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 14:47

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Please excuse this posting if the subject has already been addressed.
I just started following the discussion regarding "long long" etc. and have
noticed several references to 8/16/32/64/128... bit types.  Has something
in the standard changed to require everything be based on 8 bits or is this
a quick and dirty way of representing any machine such as when the types are
9/18/36/72/144... or some other lengths based upon bytes which are not 8 bits?

Ray Mitchell
mitch@nosc.mil

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