From:	kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
Date:	Wed, 1 May 1996 18:59:12 -0400
Message-Id:	<9605012259.AA05035@quasar.bloomberg.com >
To:	j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<199604290017.AA082707040@relay1.geis.com> (j.aldrich6@genie.com)
Subject:	Re: sizeof(int) == 4?!
Reply-To:	kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

   From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
   Date: Mon, 29 Apr 96 00:20:00 UTC 0000

   Reply to message 3437345    from STWAND07 AT UCTV on 04/28/96  3:58PM


   >The use of long has no effect in DJGPP since int's are "long" (32 bit)
   >by default.

   Actually, printf() and similar commands will moan and groan if you send
   them longs with %d specifiers, or ints with %ld.  I guess this is for
   compatibility, as no compiler I've seen has required the use of %h
   for shorts.

Actually they all would complain except that with a variable argument list
function like printf, etc, shorts are upgraded to ints before calling the
function so it does not matter!

   Speaking of longs vs. ints, I had a great deal of fun with v1.2, which defined
   size_t as an int rather than a long, which is standard.  Then, when v2 came
   out and turned size_t back to a long, I had to go and change all those
   print specifiers back.  Or was it size_t?  I can't even remember now, but it
   was one of the defined _t types.  :)

-- 
Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com

A proverb is no proverb to you 'till life has illustrated it.  -- John Keats

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