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From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas writes:

>      3	#define VALUE	0

> My original question was if this is not behavior that should be
> considered buggy, since the size of VALUE has not been determined to be
> equal to sizeof(int) when the #define occurs, or has it?

The size of VALUE is not the issue; the type is `int' in the
line quoted above.  If you want VALUE to be a `short', you need
to say:

    #define VALUE ((short) 0)

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Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>


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