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

Subject: Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986)
From: fungus <fungus@egg.chips.and.spam.com>
Date: 1999/08/19
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Gene Wirchenko 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.
> 

Bzzzzzzt!

Longs are always at least 32 bits.


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