int32 et al. (was: Style guides and portabili

[Terry Poot]

In article <867 at TALOS.UUCP>, jerry at TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) writes:
>:Requirements:                   Use:
>: 1 <= bits <=  8, save space    char
>: 9 <= bits <= 16, save space    short
>: 1 <= bits <= 16, save time     int
>:17 <= bits <= 32                long

That's the way I do it. Note, however, that if you are dealing with
signed numbers, you MUST specify signed char, since the machine may
implement a char as unsigned. 
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