From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!)) Date: 1997/11/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287527863 Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <63oadj$ljc$1@helios.crest.nt.com> <63qkp9$bqr$3@darla.visi.com> <63r2sv$rgm$1@helios.crest.nt.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <63r2sv$rgm$1@helios.crest.nt.com> kaz@helios.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) writes: >In article <63qkp9$bqr$3@darla.visi.com>, >Peter Seebach wrote: >> >>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 How did you get the idea that EOF must be an "extra value"? The standard only requires it to be negative, not to be different from ANY value returned by a successful call to getc(). Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, IT Division Email: Dan.Pop@cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 1-014, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland