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David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> Assuming the hardware arithmetic is 64-bit then I think it
> would be best to have "short" be 32-bit, char 8-bit and 
> 16-bit "long char". "Wide char" would be more standard but
> why introduce a new keyword. "Short short" for 16-bit would
> be in the spirit of "long long" (which I assume no longer
> would exist).

How much existing code do you want to break?

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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