asctime.c
Andrew Brown
atatat at atatdot.net
Wed Jul 28 05:14:44 UTC 2004
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>Andrew Brown said:
>> my copy of k&r (2ed) says, in brief:
>>
>> + short and long are intended (but not required) to be different
>> lengths
>> + int will be the "natural size" for a machine
>> + shorts and ints are at least 16 bits
>> + longs are at least 32 bits
>> + sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
>>
>> therefore, int could be 128 bits if you liked, but long would have to
>> be at least as many, while short could only be at most as many. and
>> that's it.
>
>K&R isn't the Standard, and sometimes simplifies. However, your conclusions
>here are correct.
true, but the second edition has the ansi stamp on it, and afaik
there's no third edition. i have a c9x draft somewhere around but the
last time i looked, it was more than twice as large as the k&r book i
have and at most half as readable. i doubt that particular aspect of
the language was changed, though.
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