OT: Language for the ages

[Fred Cisin]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Eric J Korpela wrote:
> > "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.

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.

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