32 bit longs
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Tue Jan 22 09:03:59 AEST 1991
In article <231 at nazgul.UUCP> bright at nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>P.S. I prefer stuff like:
> #if sizeof(long) == 4
> ...
> #else
> #error This algorithm needs to be ported
> #endif
>but ANSI C seems to have torpedoed that.
I don't know why you say "torpedoed" -- that usage was never proper C,
was not supported by the UNIX C implementations, and would require
significantly more complex preprocessing, assuming that one could even
specify precisely how to fit it into the phases of translation.
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