>From: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com>
>Date: Fri, 31 Oct 97 15:12:38 -0800

>The 'correct' type in this case really is one which is "32 bits or
>larger, as convenient for the machine."  On all existing platforms,
>that'd be 32-bits, so it wouldn't be a binary compatibility problem.
>
>I seem to recall that some standard was going specify such types, but
>I don't know what happened (or even which standard).

I should probably let Peter Seebach answer this one, but I believe ISO
C 9x will specify types for both fixed-size and this-size-or-greater
integers.
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