lint, pointers, 0 (what else?)

Doug Gwyn <gwyn> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Thu Feb 28 01:21:59 AEST 1985


>  If your code needs 34 bit ints ...

How did you get yourself into this jam?

Ints are only guaranteed to cover the range -32767 to +32767.
Not even long ints are guaranteed to have 34 bits of dynamic range.

I have written a lot of C code and NEVER have had any such
word length dependencies (other than in explicitly system-dependent
code that would not make sense to try to port anyway).
I would be interested in why your code has them.



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