asctime.c
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Wed Jul 28 05:01:43 UTC 2004
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.
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