Re: advantage of using typedefs

On 28 Jan 2006 00:50:55 -0800, in comp.lang.c ,
"junky_fellow@xxxxxxxxxxx" <junky_fellow@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(concerning typdef'ing)

>Thanx for your reply, Emmanuel. But if this is the case (ie we need
>the biggest possible unsigned integer to hold offset ) then why not declare
>unsigned long long offset;

Because then its size would vary from platform to platform, and on a
c90 implementation it would be an error. Some implementations spell
"long long" as "__int64", others don't support it at all etc etc.

>I believe unsigned long long should be highest possible integer type ?
>Or am I wrong ?

You're right, but the size of long long varies from platform to
platform
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