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!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: int16, int32 Message-ID: <609@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 08:29:30 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.609 Posted: Sun Aug 11 08:29:30 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 03:00:46 EDT References: <541@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1167@umcp-cs.UUCP> <384@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 9 > >In any case, most experienced C programmers will use "short" when 16 > >bits is known to suffice and "long" when 32 bits are needed. > Um, excuse me folks, but this discussion is getting very machine dependent. > Everyone seems to be assuming, at least tacitly, that "ints" come in > only two sizes: 16 bits and 32 bits. Not at all. These are the minimum number of bits guaranteed in the ANSI spec.