Re: C to JVM, time to revive JGNAT?

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> Bj�rn Persson wrote:
>> And if you write standard Ada code you can also write once and run 
>> anywhere.
> 
> Which is true also about standard C:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main()
> {
>     puts("Hello");
>     return 0;
> }

Is that the most interesting program you can write in standard C? ;-)

As a quick example of a non-portable aspect of standard C, let's say I 
need to represent natural numbers from 1 to 1000000. Which data type 
should I use to ensure that the program will be portable to all 
platforms that can handle these numbers? In C 99 there is *finally* a 
set of portable integer types. Can I count on those being available in 
all compilers?

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