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- From: miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike Rubenstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Question-2
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 03:39:57 GMT
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- gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz (Simon Hosie) wrote:
-
- >
- > bennett@erich.triumf.ca (P.Bennett) wrote:
- > > shorts are shorter than longs. Ints may be the same as either, or not.
- >
- > Mike Rubenstein:
- > > Not necessarily. char, short, int, and long may all be the same size.
- >
- > Is there a defined integral type longer than long, yet? And since it
- > would have to be optional, is there a way of seeing if a compiler knows
- > about that type (I tried "#ifdef <type>" but that didn't work).
-
- Not standard. Some compilers use long long for a super long.
- Microsoft uses __int64. As far as I know there's not common way of
- determining if a compiler supports such super longs.
-
-
- Michael M Rubenstein
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