From:	Moogla <ngoldber AT lan DOT tjhsst DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: EUREKA... note about pcx header
Date:	Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:18:59 -0400
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Chris Holmes wrote:
> 

>   Most protected mode compilers compile based on a 32 bit integer.
> DJGPP does this.
>   For anyone who doesn't already know this (it is pretty common
> knowledge), in DJGPP:
>   char = 1 byte
>   short = 2 bytes
>   int = 4 bytes
>   long = 8 bytes
Sigh, sigh, sigh. No!

char = 1 byte always
short = 2 byte always
long = 4 byte always
long long = 8 byte always

DJGPP has harcoded it's unspecified generic garden variety of int to a
long (good move, for 32-bit protected mode... :} )

>   And please don't ask about the time I took a new way to do fixed
> point math to a CS professor who thought it was brilliant and he sent
> me to a Computer Engineering prof who said, "Yes, congrats, you just
> rediscovered floating point."  That was a bad day.
> 
>   Chris

and just for kicks, with no matter what architecture you're dealing
with:
short float = 32-bit IEEE float
double (float) = 64-bit IEEE float
long double (float) = 80-bit IEEE float
float (generic) in DJGPP can change depending on context or compiler
flags, but if it has a choice, it's the 64-bit variety.

moogla

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