Re: size_t

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From: Chris Ebenezer
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 12:33

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Steve Clamage (clamage@Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:
: Example: A system has a 48-bit address space and 48-bit pointers, but does
: not have a 48-bit integer type. (The integer types are 8, 16, 32, and
: maybe 64 bits.) Suppose the implementation predefined an unsigned 48-bit
: type "__ptrsize", and size_t was typedef'd to be __ptrsize.

Well, an implementation is free to represent int with 48 bits. All thats
guarenteed is that :

    long >= 32bits; short >= 16 bits
and
    short <= int <= long

Maybe someone would care to correct me on this.

Chris.

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Date: 1 Feb 1996 12:33:36 GMT
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