From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: What's this? A bug?
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:13:23 +0200
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> I challenge c.o.m.d readers to
> find *one* C/C++ compiler on *any* platform that defines 'short'
> as anything other than a 16-bit integer.

Challenge taken ;-)

On many embedded DSP processors all integral data types, including 
char, short, int, long, you name it--all of them have the same length, 
typically 32 bits.  This is because the target machine is a RISC CPU
which is optimized for a single integral data type.