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Article #6055Re: short vs. long
From: Martin Minow
Date: Sun, 21 May 1989 21:43
Date: Sun, 21 May 1989 21:43
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In article <19.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> rex@aussie.UUCP (Rex Jaeschke) replies to a posting that noted that the Draft standard "does not require that the sizeof short is less than or equal to the sizeof int..." > >This is one of those "by a careful reading of the draft" type >questions. Page 23 lines 36-43 states that "... the range of values of >each type [signed char, short, int, long] is a subrange of the values >of the next type in the list." Not to be picky, but the *range* of a value is not necessarily the same thing as its storage requirement. For example, on a Vax computer, float and double have the same range, but different size (and different precision). Or, am I reading the standard *too* carefully? Martin Minow minow%thundr.dec@decwrl.dec.com The above does not represent the position of Digital Equipment Corporation.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!shlump.dec.com!mountn.dec.com!minow From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: short vs. long Message-ID: <160@mountn.dec.com> Date: 21 May 89 21:43:01 GMT References: <11763@well.UUCP> <19.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP> Reply-To: minow%thundr.dec@decwrl.dec.com (Martin Minow) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 19