In article <29127 at apple.Apple.COM> austing at Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes: -In article <10044 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: ->longs are at least 32 bits. -longs are guaranteed to be at least 24 bits (according to C++, sec 2.3.1) That's nice, but Mr. Schmidt was inquiring about the C standard, not C++.