int divided by unsigned.

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Thu Jul 13 02:27:49 AEST 1989


In article <13983 at lanl.gov> jlg at lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>...distinct data types should differ from each other in predictable
>ways...

They do.  Barring truly peculiar machines, long is longer than short, and
int is whichever of the two is more efficient.  (The latter is *important*,
because for many housekeeping variables you don't care much about the
range but you want speed.)
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