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Article #574Re: Must sizeof(int) exceed sizeof(char) in hosted environments?
From: D. Chadwick Gibbons
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1989 20:06
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1989 20:06
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In article <9487@cbnews.ATT.COM> mark@cblpf.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes: |The obvious reason why you would want big characters (other than tiny |8 bit machines) is to support eastern character sets, such as the |Japanese Kanji. Exactly why the indentifier wchar_t was placed into the pANS. A small note of this is given in the latter parts of K&R. wchar_t is implementation defined to be the largest value any particular character set can within a given locale. |By the way, some other character sets (such as Chinese) don't fit in |16 bits. Assuming that since int=long that characters will always be |smaller than int may not be safe. Possibly safe, but definately not portable programming.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!chad From: chad@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (D. Chadwick Gibbons) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Must sizeof(int) exceed sizeof(char) in hosted environments? Message-ID: <31@uwm.edu> Date: 12 Sep 89 20:06:46 GMT References: <1989Aug29.204254.3307@sq.sq.com> <1713@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <10908@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9487@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: chad@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (D. Chadwick Gibbons) Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lines: 15