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- From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: sscanf and portability
- Summary: TYPO ALERT AND APOLOGY
- Message-ID: <14554@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 06:44:45 GMT
- References: <RUJO.92Sep14160231@ulrik.uio.no> <14544@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
- Lines: 11
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- In article <14544@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
- > The ANSI stndard guarantees that
- ^^^^^^^ should be "standard", sorry
- > [unsigned|signed] char at least 8 bits
- > [unsigned] short at least 16 bits
- > [unsigned] long at least 32 bits
- > sizeof (long) >= sizeof (int) >= sizeof (short) >= sizeof (char) >= 1
- ^^
- That of course must be ==. I do assure you it was a typo, not a thinko.
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