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From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:08:50PM +0000, Pete French wrote:
> > It's the C language. While it's claimed to be "portable," it really doesn't
> > address integer size and endianism well enough.
> 
> All the more reason to be careful you might have thought :-) Mind you,
> trying to explain to students why 'long x = 65535;' set x equal to -1
> always made me feel like I was trying to appologise for the indefensible!

Buggy compilers are indefensible, yes, but why try to apologise for it?

'long x = 65535;' will not set x to -1, even with 16-bit ints.


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