new standard for malloc() suggested

[Israel Pinkas]

>PS: to iterate an earlier suggestion: let's REQUIRE that char, short,
>int and long have a MINIMUM size of 8, 8, 16 and 32 bits respectively,
>and perhaps that 'long' be large enough to hold a pointer to any type
>(or at least the difference between two pointers whenever that difference
>is meaningful) (only need 16 bits for THAT on an Intel chip :-)

The last Intel chip to be able to guarantee that was the 8085.  From the
8086/8088 and up, code could be compiled in the "large" memory model which
required at least 20 bit to store, and could require up to 32 bits.

-Israel
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