From: Chris Holmes <cholmes AT surfsouth DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: EUREKA... note about pcx header
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:49:16 -0400
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> sephiroth writes:
> > I always get by this problem by specifically defining a short or a
> > long. I think this is good practice.
> 
> The size of a short or long isn't any more specific than the
> size of an int: these can vary depending on your compiler and
> the type of machine you are working with. It is never correct
> to make any assumptions about the size of data types, which

  Pardon?  Once the code is compiled, the size of everything is fixed
in the machine code and if your compiler made ints 4 bytes, then 
that size will stay fixed from processor to processor.  
  
  Chris