On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:01:59AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, just checking one 64 bit machine would not be enough. > If you stick to Linux and gcc then you get fairly consistent results > but C is bigger than gcc (only slightly).
I'd suggest it is the other way around; gcc implements *much* more than the C standard. C99 says that the minimum size of an integer is 2 bytes, but anything bigger is OK. The real reference is the relevant ABI for the architecture/operating system combination. -i
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