Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: NOT Re: Re: lint, pointers, 0 (what else?) Message-ID: <8848@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 17:53:05 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8848 Posted: Fri Mar 1 17:53:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:47:50 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 18 /* > If you need a guaranteed 32 bits in an integral type in C, > use (long int) a.k.a. (long), NOT (int). If you need more than > 32 bits then you can't portably directly use any C integral > type (although you can accomplish this in other ways). Try using double. That should give you quite a few bits of precision. Remember that integers are expressed exactly in floating point. BTW, flame on for this and other subject titles. I guess your news software just tacks on `Re: ' to the front of your titles & throws you into vi? This the once a title of a discussion once dear to my heart that turned sour. Try & think up more appropriate titles. "I see no lint here" jim */