Uses of "short" ?
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sat Sep 7 02:35:51 AEST 1985
> What are the reasons for using the type short in C ? ...
> Specifically... on machines where sizeof (int) = sizeof (short).
Sloppiness in this is common (although not nearly as disastrous as
being sloppy on machines where sizeof(int) == sizeof(long)!). The
main reason for distinguishing between the two is portability, i.e.
making your programs work on machines which violate this property
as well as machines which satisfy it.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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