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Re: More problems with lcc-win

From BartC <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: More problems with lcc-win
Date 2017-03-15 20:19 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 15/03/2017 19:44, Keith Thompson wrote:
> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> [...]
>> Now the common situation when 'int' is 32 bits, is that 'long long' is
>> 64 bits; what's the point of 'long'?
>
> The point is that int is at least 16 bits (and encouraged to be the
> "natural" size for the machine in some vaguely defined sense), long is
> at least 32 bits, and long long is at least 64 bits.  You can write a
> lot of code relying only on those guarantees.

The COMMON situation is that int is 32 bits and long long is 64 bits. 
Then when would you use long? It's no longer an in-between value, and 
it's no longer even longer than int, if that's how it was used.

And when int is 16 bits, then what's the point of 'short'.

Here's the current set of int types and their typical widths on x86 and ARM:

  char              8
  short            16
  int              32
  long             ??
  long long        64

And when int is 16 bits:

  char              8
  short            ??
  int              16
  long             32
  long long        64

Notice the odd one out in each case...

I think it could have been handled better.

-- 
Bartc



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  Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-15 11:27 +0100
    Re: More problems with lcc-win scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-15 13:18 +0000
      Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-15 15:22 +0100
        Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 08:26 -0700
    Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 08:25 -0700
      Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-15 16:46 +0100
        Re: More problems with lcc-win David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-15 17:07 +0100
          Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 09:52 -0700
            Re: More problems with lcc-win scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-15 16:57 +0000
              Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 10:11 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-15 18:17 +0000
            Re: More problems with lcc-win Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-15 17:21 +0000
              Re: More problems with lcc-win GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-03-15 18:42 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-15 18:20 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-15 18:59 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-15 18:20 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-03-15 19:39 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 12:44 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-15 20:19 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-16 10:03 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-16 11:15 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-16 11:32 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-16 13:41 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 08:52 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-16 09:57 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-03-16 13:53 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win jm.bourguet@gmail.com - 2017-03-16 07:14 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-16 08:59 -0700
              Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 12:43 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-15 20:39 +0000
            Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-15 23:56 +0100
        Re: More problems with lcc-win Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-15 16:33 +0000
          Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-15 17:47 +0100
            Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 10:04 -0700
              Re: More problems with lcc-win jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-16 00:52 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 18:02 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 18:23 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-17 13:45 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-18 00:23 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-18 00:29 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-18 00:31 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-17 17:01 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-20 16:41 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-20 18:32 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-20 18:18 +0000
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                Re: More problems with lcc-win BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-21 23:21 +0000
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                Re: More problems with lcc-win mertesthomas@gmail.com - 2017-03-16 06:28 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-03-16 16:56 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win mertesthomas@gmail.com - 2017-03-16 14:53 -0700
              Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 16:18 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-16 18:03 +0000
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                Re: More problems with lcc-win mertesthomas@gmail.com - 2017-03-18 00:44 -0700
                Re: More problems with lcc-win BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-18 13:31 +0000
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                Re: More problems with lcc-win scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-03-20 13:27 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-03-18 15:15 +0100
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                Re: More problems with lcc-win GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-03-18 20:11 +0100
                Re: More problems with lcc-win BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-03-18 19:45 +0000
                Re: More problems with lcc-win mertesthomas@gmail.com - 2017-03-20 00:35 -0700
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                Re: More problems with lcc-win GOTHIER Nathan <nathan.gothier@gmail.com> - 2017-03-19 03:21 +0100
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    Re: More problems with lcc-win mertesthomas@gmail.com - 2017-03-15 14:50 -0700
  Re: More problems with lcc-win Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-03-15 08:24 -0700
    Re: More problems with lcc-win jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-03-15 16:47 +0100
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