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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG.
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In comp.lang.fortran Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> wrote:

(snip, someone wrote)
>> Because, in C at least, it's not mandatory for a conforming
>> implementation to support any of the fixed-width types.
 
> But it's hardly rocket science to declare them for implementations that 
> lack them.

With the assumption that the fixed-width is one implemented on
the host machine.  Neither Fortran nor C require a machine to
support a 32 bit type.  (Java does.)

-- glen