Of Standards and Inventions: A Cautionary Tale

[Josh Sirota]

In article <10353 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>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

Christ!  Use long all the time ... a simple
	#define INT	long
would suffice, if you insist on having this INT thing at all.

Why would you want to do this?  If you want 4 byte values, specify long
on ANY machine.

					Josh
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