On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> For integers, we have two types, platform native, and bigint. No guarantees
> are made as to the size of a native int. bigints can be of any size.
So a native int could be 8 bits big? I think that's allowed according to
ANSI. Not very useful, though. What's the point of having a native int if
nothing is known about it? You can't reliably use it for numbers above
100, then (or even if "at least 16 bits" is guaranteed, you can't portably
use it for numbers bigger than 32000-odd). This is assuming that larger
numbers automatically fail-over to bigint, otherwise, for portability, one
would probably be better off using bigints all the time.
Cheers,
Philip
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