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!gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA From: gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: lint, pointers, 0 (what else?) Message-ID: <8814@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 11:00:14 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8814 Posted: Fri Mar 1 11:00:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 04:52:32 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 7 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). Anyone who uses (int) and needs more than 16 bits is making a mistake.