On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Mike Barton wrote: > You should be moving vnums from sh_int to int, not int to long int.
I disagree. Just because it is easier to convert the code, and happens to work on one particular compiler/architecture doesn't make it a good idea. There's no reason to explicitly hinder code portability like this. If you want the range of a long int, use a long int. Or use an architecture independent type with the required range. > The reality is that short ints are converted to normal ints when they are > passed to a function.. To be more precise, short ints are converted to normal ints when they are passed to a function without a prototype, when they are passed to a variable argument function (except for the declared parameters), and when they are passed to a function expecting an int parameter. A short int is not converted to an int when passed to a function with a prototype specifying a short int parameter. > And long ints are the same size as normal ints on > most machines. So %d can handle any of them gracefully. "Most machines" just isn't good enough in my opinion. Dennis
