Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:24:20 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, sheldonh@uunet.co.za Subject: 'sizeof' C storage (was Re: bin/14472: date for Y#K) Message-ID: <199910291924.NAA05750@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199910291918.MAA24925@george.lbl.gov> References: <199910291918.MAA24925@george.lbl.gov>
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> "long" seems to be a bad type definition in C program since it is not in > a fixed variable size. I will not use it at a critical segment. No variable types are 'fixed' in C. On Win32, int is 32 bits, on Alpha it's 64 bit. The only thing you can rely on is that short <= int <= long. The relative sizes are unknown, unless you limit your code to a certain hardware/software platform of known release. The only popular language that fixes it's types is Java that I'm aware of. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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