From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: as internal declarations - gfx demo
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 13:32:52 -0700
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Adam Brown wrote:

> I know, and I already apologised for that assertion. Lower down.
> Sorry.
> As it happens I got that from a book on C that I have, but it was
> clearly wrong, as the real standard makes much more sense.

ANSI C guarantees that a short is _at least_ 16 bits.  It maybe be more.

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