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From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was:
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In <873814216snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) writes:

>The problem here is that you can't have holes in an unsigned char.

Chapter and verse, please.

Dan
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