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From: kaz@helios.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was:
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Date: 1997/11/05
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In article <63qkp9$bqr$3@darla.visi.com>,
Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> wrote:
>In article <w0b4t5r428o.fsf@mah21awm.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>,
> <nospam@spam.com> wrote:
>>Nor have you. The definitions are as follows.
>
>>short <= int <= long
>>short < long
>>short > char
>
>No.  Short is not required to be any smaller than long, nor any larger
>than char.  A system where all four types are 64-bits is conforming.

But it cannot be a conforming hosted implementation, as I pointed out
in the other article, because the getc() and putc() functions require
the int type to represent everything in the range of 0 to UCHAR_MAX,
plus the extra value EOF. It therefore follows that a hosted implementation
requires the additional requirement:

    char < int

This sort of thing would be good subject matter for a C-language version of
Trivial Pursuit.
-- 
"In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be
indented six feet downward and covered with dirt."
	-- Blair P. Houghton