Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 17:58:00 12/09/02
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On December 09, 2002 at 17:17:53, Robert Hyatt wrote: > Unfortunately C99 is not particularly well-supported yet. The previous C > standard left a _lot_ of holes. Is char signed or unsigned by default? > Neither. Which is stupid. > Is long 16 or 32 or 64 bits? Any of the above depending on the machine. > Do bit fields start right-justified or left-justified? Either. |long| can't be 16 bits. C89 says that longs have to be at least 32 bits wide. (Well, actually I think it specifies them in terms of what range of numbers they have to be able to represent, but it's the same thing in practice.) -- g
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