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- From: gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz (Simon Hosie)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: integer and real numbers in C/C++
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 02:46:37 +1200
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- Laurent Darton:
- > My problem is
- > - I don't want to use a long (4 Bytes) to code 3 bytes (but it
- > works fine..)
-
- Why don't you just accept it? It's not unlikely that if you did create a
- 3 byte data type that it would get rounded up to 4 bytes for alignment
- purposes and simply deny you access to a quarter of it.
-