Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986)

[seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)]

In article <37bb3ef9.24418394@news.shuswap.net>,
Gene Wirchenko <genew@shuswap.net> wrote:
>     I believe it would be a conforming implementation of C to have
>short, int, and long all be 16 bits. In that case, using unsigned long
>wouldn't be enough.

As long as you can fit 2^31-1 into a signed 16-bit value, yeah, that'd be
conforming.  :)

-s
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