Of Standards and Inventions: A Cautionary Tale

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <7637 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
| [...]
| We didn't want to mandate that the preprocessor be integrated into the
| language parser proper.  I agree that the language would be nicer if
| it WERE so integrated, but for historical reasons it wasn't.

  This would be true for sizeof a user type or variable, but certainly
not for a predefined type, such as sizeof int. With programs traveling
between 32 bit machines and 16 bit machines (286, 11s) I want to say:
	#if	sizeof int < 32
	#define INT	long
	#else
	#define INT	int
	#endif
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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