Subject: Re: C Language Standard(s)
To: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/22/1995 09:50:42
> > It is permissible for
> > an int to be 16 bits, 32 bits, or, as on the Alpha, 64 bits.   It is
> > permissible for sizeof (long) to be less than sizeof (int),
> 
> You meant, I assume, "sizeof (int) to be less than sizeof (long)", since
> what you typed is, in fact, impermissible.

No, I meant exactly what I typed.   Read the standard.  Unless I'm
completely misremembering, it is indeed permissible for sizeof (int)
to be 64 and sizeof (long) to be 32.

			       _MelloN_