long_int vs int byte sizes

[Ross Smith]

On 2014-04-08 03:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  7 09:39, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>> C99 5.2.4.2.1 Sizes of integer types <limits.h>
>>
>> requires CHAR_BIT to be 8 or larger, UCHAR_MAX to be 255 or larger,
>> USHRT_MAX to be 65535 or larger (oh, so I was wrong above; 8-bit short
>> is not allowed), UINT_MAX to be 65535 or larger, ULONG_MAX to be
>> 4294967295 or larger, and ULLONG_MAX to be 18446744073709551615 or larger.
>
> C99 actually requires that?  Wow.  Modern times...

It was already required in C89; the only change in C99 was the addition 
of long long.

Ross Smith



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