What breaks? (was Re: 64 bit longs?)
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Mon Jan 21 13:57:06 AEST 1991
In article <14896 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>There is no portable way to declare a type with *exactly* 32 bits, ...
>
>And there is no guarantee that such a type even exists...
In that case, that machine is going to have real trouble declaring, say,
a TCP header structure. It is always possible to find machines so badly
broken that you can't cope with them.
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