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From: Ross Smith <rosss@pharos.co.nz>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: long_int vs int byte sizes
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534337AB.3000505@pharos.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140407155131.GR2061@calimero.vinschen.de>

On 2014-04-08 03:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  7 09:39, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>> C99 5.2.4.2.1 Sizes of integer types <limits.h>
>>
>> requires CHAR_BIT to be 8 or larger, UCHAR_MAX to be 255 or larger,
>> USHRT_MAX to be 65535 or larger (oh, so I was wrong above; 8-bit short
>> is not allowed), UINT_MAX to be 65535 or larger, ULONG_MAX to be
>> 4294967295 or larger, and ULLONG_MAX to be 18446744073709551615 or larger.
>
> C99 actually requires that?  Wow.  Modern times...

It was already required in C89; the only change in C99 was the addition 
of long long.

Ross Smith



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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-07 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-06  6:05 Joseph Maxwell
2014-04-06  6:36 ` sisyphus1
2014-04-07  7:49   ` Csaba Raduly
2014-04-07  8:47   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-07 14:16     ` Eric Blake
2014-04-07 14:42       ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-07 15:39         ` Eric Blake
2014-04-07 15:51           ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-07 23:41             ` Ross Smith [this message]
2014-04-08  8:48               ` Corinna Vinschen

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