Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
C is peculiar in that it mkaes a point not to define the size of data types.
Didn't make a point. Since ISO C 1999, there are new data types defined in stdint.h:
8-bit: int8_t uint8_t 16-bit: int16_t uint16_t 32-bit: int32_t uint32_t 64-bit: int64_t uint64_t
Which is simply standardising what many people did with ugly preprocessor adhockery to get reliably sized ints on different platforms.
Cheers, Carl.
