On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 05:34:49AM -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote: > As expected it was the ignorance of the user, not a problem with > the function. The user thought proper usage was "int" and "long" as > classes of numbers. But the proper usage is "short int" and "long int" or > if your lazy, "long" and "short" work. > > Default plain "int" is defined as "long int". I fooled around with > a 4 byte floating point and it works, if you do some odd arithmatic. > > Thanks to the the notes that kept me playing. I would still be > confused without your help Of course, then there's the long long, which is 64 bit. And the "long long long" perhaps, except: gcc test.c test.c: In function `main': test.c:5: `long long long' is too long for GCC :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 4th year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [******* ] 70% Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor returned without a receipt.
