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- From: jcoffin@rmii.com (Jerry Coffin)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:33:33 -0700
- Organization: TAEUS
- Message-ID: <MPLANET.31530e9djcoffin98993e@news.rmii.com>
- References: <4gum82$14v4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de><MIB.96Mar15170902@gnu.ai.mit.edu><wyraut5fqq.fsf@dns.bluesky.net><MIB.96Mar16174948@gnu.ai.mit.edu><4ifq40$i87@sundog.tiac.net><MIB.96Mar18105957@gnu.ai.mit.edu><danpop.827188302@rscernix>
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- In article <danpop.827188302@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch says...
- > In <MIB.96Mar18105957@gnu.ai.mit.edu> mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I.
- Bushnell, p/BSG) writes:
- >
- > >You are not guaranteed that long is the widest integral type.
- >
- > Yes, you are. ANSI classic 3.1.2.5:
- >
- > There are four signed integer types, designated as signed char,
- > short int, int, and long int.
- >
- > The standard doesn't leave any place for extensions here.
-
- Uless I'm missing something, extensions shold be perfectly legal at least if
- their names are in the implementor's name space, or are in the user's name
- space only if a non-standard header in included, a pragma is used, etc.
-
- I can't see any way for a strictly conforming program to be affected by the
- compiler supporting something like _VeryLong or __int128. Have I missed
- something obvious?
- Later,
- Jerry.
-