Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

C99 does, at least according to the very late draft I have (this textification loses supserscripting; the "215" is 2^15, etc): 5.2.4.2.1 Sizes of integer types <limits.h> ... Their implementation-defined values shall be equal or greater in magnitude (absolute value) to those shown, with the same sign. ... -- minimum value for an object of type short int SHRT_MIN -32767 // -(215-1) ... -- minimum value for an object of type int INT_MIN -32767 // -(215-1) ... -- minimum value for an object of type long int LONG_MIN -2147483647 // -(231-1) ... -- minimum value for an object of type long long int LLONG_MIN -9223372036854775807 // -(263-1) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B