Word types..._(re)

Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:49:30 +0200

The African Chief wrote:

> long			longint  {now = integer}
> unsigned long		longword  {now = word}

The problem with this one is that (at least on the common platforms),
"long" is the same as "int", and I'd expect (as probably many ex-BP
programmers do) LongInt to be longer than Integer. In fact, some of my
programs rely on this.

> long long			comp  {now = longint, or comp}
> unsigned long long		compword (now = longword}

Why "Comp"? What does "Comp" mean at all? -- I really don't know,
perhaps I could look it up in one of the 11 BP books... :-|

However, I don't think "Comp" is reasonable name for any integer
type, except for BP compatibility ("Comp" = "compatibility type" ;-).

> However, since the above will most likely break a lot of existing
> code, perhaps GPC should have built-in data types that mean
> *exactly* the same thing as they mean in GCC

Seems necessary. (I didn't like how C messed up their integer types,
now we're getting the same problems... :-( -- I hope we find a good
solution finally!)
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