From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: long int
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:17:29 -0700
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Gerhard Gruber wrote:

> This is for GCC so but this is not generally so. There are compilers
> where an
> int is 16bit.

From the context, it should have been clear I was talking about a long
int, not an int.

ANSI C guarantees that a long will be at least as large as an int, and
will be at least 32 bits.

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