Re: sizeof(int) in 64-bit C compilers

karsten@tdr.dk (Karsten Nyblad) writes:
|> It seems to me that it is a de facto standard that int is 32 bit and
|> the size of long is the size of pointers.


The de-facto UNIX C standard before 64-bit machines was:
sizeof(int)==sizeof(pointer) (either 16 or 32 bits), and long was 32
bits. Now we don't have a de-facto standard. The old de-facto standard
was very sensible, since "int" is not just another type in C.


- anton
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[This is definitely the last message on this topic, since now it's resolved.
-John]
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