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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 16:40:33 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Arthur <arfa AT clara DOT net>
cc: DJGPP Mailing List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: How to make DJGPP treat an int as 16-bit in size.
In-Reply-To: <000001bdbed0$515d83c0$e14e08c3@arthur>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980803163922.3493A-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Arthur wrote:

> To have portable code it is common practice not to use "int" but long 
> (or short, depending on your compiler).

More accurately, use int where its size doesn't matter and you want the 
fastest code, and short/long where the size matters.

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