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Re: Coding Standards are ignorant

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From: Jerry Coffin
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 20:33
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In article <danpop.827188302@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch says...
> In <MIB.96Mar18105957@gnu.ai.mit.edu> mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I. 
Bushnell, p/BSG) writes:
> 
> >You are not guaranteed that long is the widest integral type.  
> 
> Yes, you are.  ANSI classic 3.1.2.5:
> 
>     There are four signed integer types, designated as signed char, 
>     short int, int, and long int.
> 
> The standard doesn't leave any place for extensions here.

Uless I'm missing something, extensions shold be perfectly legal at least if 
their names are in the implementor's name space, or are in the user's name 
space only if a non-standard header in included, a pragma is used, etc.

I can't see any way for a strictly conforming program to be affected by the 
compiler supporting something like _VeryLong or __int128.  Have I missed 
something obvious?
    Later,
    Jerry.
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From: jcoffin@rmii.com (Jerry Coffin)
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Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:33:33 -0700
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