sizeof (integral types)

Glenn L. Austin austing at Apple.COM
Wed Apr 19 04:16:55 AEST 1989


In article <10064 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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++.

Considering that C++ is an *EXTENSION* of C (and was written with K&R as
active participants), the fact that C++ talks about longs as at least 24 bits
is true for C as well.


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