Hi On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:52:12 +0200 "Martijn van Oosterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Odd, I always thought is was because C did not have enough int types:
>
> char 1 bytes
> short 2 bytes
> int 4 bytes
> long 8 bytes
>
> If you make an int 8 bytes, you have to find some other way of
> indicating one of the shorter types (short short maybe? or long
> char?).
Nothing says long has to be bigger that int, only thing which is
defined is:
sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
so having short, int, long of same size is not a problem.
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