Re: A question on version numbers

Michael Sweet <mike@easysw.com> writes:

> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>> "Alexander L. Belikoff" <alexander@belikoff.net> writes:
>>
>>>>You're right -- I just misread my ANSI C doc in a dumb way. A long
>>>>int is guaranteed to be at least 32 bits. Sorry for the confusion.
>>>
>>>Really?!?! I may be quite wrong, but AFAIR, the *only* thing ANSI C
>>>guarantees is that long int is *no less* in size than int (which, in
>>>turn is no less than short etc etc).
>> K&R (ANSI C) Second Edition, page 18, middle:
>> "long integers are at least 32 bits."
>
> IIRC, that K&R 2e book was released before the final ANSI C
> standard was ratified and isn't considered to be authoritative.
> (that isn't to say you aren't right, but just so you know...)

  International Standard ISO/IEC 9899

    5.2.4.2.1 Sizes of integer types <limits.h>

       LONG_MAX 2147483647 // 2^31-1

A conforming implementation cannot use a smaller value.

-- 
Philip Martin
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