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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:57:54 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:25:14PM +0000, Pete French wrote:
> > The type of a decimal integer constant without any suffix is the first
> > of 'int', 'long', 'long long' in which the constant can be represented.
> 
> It is ? Well, you learn something new every day I guess! I stand
> corrected in that case. Appologies.
> 
> > (For C89 it was the first of 'int', 'long', 'unsigned long')
> 
> ...and before that ? Did this behaviour change at the end of the 80's - I
> don't actually recall seeing it on any compilers after 88 or so I have
> to admit.

Before that it was just the first of 'int' and 'long'.
(According to Harbison/Steele: C:A Reference Manual)


> 
> > No doubt, but if it does the compilers are buggy.
> 
> Apparently so. It seems I've spent the last 18 years or so believing an
> untyped integer constant was always of type 'int' when it wasn't true. Well,
> maybe I will be less anal about adding 'L' to the ends of my constants from
> now on.
> 
> -pcf.

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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se