On 21/08/2015 01:12 PM, clipka wrote:
> Okay, I guess everyone who has ever touched C or C++ has at least heard
> rumors of this: The standard data types, such as "int", "short int" or
> "long int", are anything but.

If I'm remembering my history right, C was basically invented to write 
Unix in. From the very beginning, it was a programming language 
*specifically designed* for system programming.

You know, the kind of programming where knowing exactly how many bits 
you're dealing with is 100% critical.

And yet, this is one of the few programming languages on Earth which 
doesn't guarantee how many bits are in a particular data type, and 
provides no way to specify what you actually want.

Does that seem weird to anybody else??

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