On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Idries Hamadi wrote: > They're just shorter ways of writing unsigned <blah blah>. Also, it > means that you can change their definitions easily on systems where (for > example) short is not 16-bits long and somthing else is.
IIRC, "unsigned long" on a DEC Alpha is 64 bits, so there's a valid point :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Smith // avalon73 at arthurian dot nu // http://www.arthurian.nu/ Software Developer // Gamer // Webmaster // System Administrator Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. -- Henrik Tikkanen -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
