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- From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
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- Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
- Date: 07 Mar 1996 16:32:58 GMT
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- In-reply-to: softbase@mercury.interpath.net's message of 7 Mar 1996 13:33:40 GMT
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- In article <4hmojk$ij2@news.interpath.net>
- softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems) writes:
-
- <snip>
- SMSS: points (how many architectures have size_t not set to a word?), but
-
- Right in this newsgroup someone complained that the his/her computer
- thought that sizeof was not working. Guess what? sizeof was returning
- unsigned long which was longer than int in this particular
- installation, and because of the byte order %d was giving the wrong
- result ...
-
- If I remember correctly, it was some compiler on a Mac.
-
- In any case, it is not a `technical point'. It is something everyone
- has to be carefult about when they use abstract or enumerated types. I
- am surprised that _anyone_ who claims to write books on C is unaware
- of such simple stuff.
-
- Cheers
- Tanmoy
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