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- From: dnl@convex.is.macsch.com (David Lombard)
- Subject: Re: Typedefing builtin... thanks.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.162710.9963@draco.macsch.com>
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- Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corp.
- References: <1992Nov9.150414.10221@odin.diku.dk> <1992Nov17.235519.24646@pure.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 16:27:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.235519.24646@pure.com> rpeck@pure.com (Ray Peck) writes:
- >
- >The only problem with this is a WORD is not a portable concept (i.e.,
- >people in 68k's call 16 bits a word, while people on Real Machines ;-)
- >call 32 bits a word. All modern machines use 32b and up.
- >
- >
- >For this reason, I prefer types int8, int16, int32, or (better) u1b,
- >u2b, u4b, (unsigned) and s1b, s2b, s4b (signed).
- >
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- And people of Real Fast machines call a word 64 bits! :-)
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- DNL
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