Re: advantage of using typedefs

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:32:56 GMT, in comp.lang.c , Keith Thompson
<kst-u@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Mark McIntyre <markmcintyre@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On 28 Jan 2006 00:50:55 -0800, in comp.lang.c ,
>> "junky_fellow@xxxxxxxxxxx" <junky_fellow@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>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
>
>Yes, but if you want the biggest unsigned integer type, you have to
>accept that its size is going to vary.

.... which was my point.

Mark McIntyre
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