18 Oct
2005
18 Oct
'05
3:07 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Eric J Korpela wrote:
Oh. OK. The "NEW" version of C (v K&R)
Actually, I AGREE with those size recommendations.
I LIKE having 8 bit chars, 16 bit ints, 32 bit longs;
but there are some bizarre vintage implementations out there,
and on the old stuff, you can not count on a specific size.
But only because the hardware you're used to using C on suits these sizes.
Gordon.
"rules"???????
Who's rules? K&R very strenuously avoids defining the sizes.
The ISO's rules, of course. The ISO standard is 16 years old now.