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Um? *boggle* Silly question about listobject.c

Michael Hudson mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Jun 4 12:22:42 EDT 2000 
Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> writes:

> After running through a quick bit-shifting test, I discovered
> to my chagrine that I was thinking for some dumb reason that
> int was 16 bits. 

It can be, eg. on m68k Macs with appropriate compiler settings.
Isn't, on any commodity hardware newer than that, afaik.

> This is what I get for working on programming problems all day long
> during my leisure time. I heard a rumor that programming destroys
> brain cells more quickly than liquor.  Is it true? :)-

Well, my finals finish this week, so I'll let you know.

> *bonk self on head with rubber mallet*

Can't hurt :-)

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  This is an off-the-top-of-the-head-and-not-quite-sober suggestion,
  so is probably technically laughable.  I'll see how embarassed I
  feel tomorrow morning.            -- Patrick Gosling, ucam.comp.misc
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