Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!sjuvax!jss From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: Uses of "short" ? Message-ID: <2285@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 14:57:19 EDT Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2285 Posted: Thu Oct 3 14:57:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 15:14:28 EDT References: <486@houxh.UUCP> <3400008@ndm20> Organization: Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. Lines: 14 I am inclined to prefer the use of int16, int32, int64, int8, char. These leave it entirely unambiguous which one you wanted and can be typedefed by a standard header file to avoid a lot of machine dependency. It ain't perfect, but it's pretty damn close. Anyone with a 48 bit int deserves what he gets;-) Jon Shapiro -- Jonathan S. Shapiro Haverford College "It doesn't compile pseudo code... What do you expect for fifty dollars?" - M. Tiemann