64 bit architectures and C/C++
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
Thu May 9 13:58:00 AEST 1991
In article <470 at heurikon.heurikon.com>, daves at ex.heurikon.com (Dave Scidmore) writes:
> I'm supprised nobody has mentioned that the real solution to this kind
> of portability problem is for the original programmer to use the
> definitions in "types.h" that tell you how big chars, shorts, ints,
> and longs are.
Why be surprised? I'm using an Encore Multimax running 4.3BSD, and
on this machine there _isn't_ any types.h file. We have a copy of GCC,
so we _have_ access to the ANSI file, but that's <limits.h>, not "types.h".
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Why not you? -- John Allen Paulos.
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