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Subject: Re: 16 bit integers
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:33:48 +0200 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, "Tõnu Aas"
<tonu AT ids DOT ee> wrote:

>> Use "short"'s instead of Int ( which are really long ). They can be signed
>> or unsigned, and are guaranteed
>> to be 16 bits
>
>    Use C99 standard stdint.h header and you can control
>integer data type sizes in portable way.
>
>    And be warned that there is another thing called alignment
>which has not portable way to control.
>
>    Its amazing that C & C++ languages have not instruments to
>use even basic data types in portable way.

Portable assumptions are: char holds at least 8 bits, int at least 16,
long at least 32: pick the appropriate size for the range of integers
you have to deal with. Avoid C99 stdint.h if you want to be portable
to most existing implementations. 

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