From: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
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Subject: Re: long int
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 19:30:54 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:16:11 -0700:

>Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> This is indeed so for GCC on x86 processors, but ANSI does NOT require
>> it.
>> ANSI only says that a long should be at least as wide as an int.
>
>And that it is _at least_ 32 bits.  It may be more, but you're
>guaranteed at least 32 bits.

This is for GCC so but this is not generally so. There are compilers where an
int is 16bit.

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