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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Is this a bug in 8c?
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:08:57 -0500
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> > 8c et al. don't do ? : for non-integer types,
> > and long long is a non-integer type (meaning
> > it's synthesized from multiple machine words).
> 
> long long is an "integer type" according to the meaning
> of that term in the C standard.  That's not determined
> by implementation details such as how many words are needed.

x g/> >/ s/integer/register/.  happy?

i gave a precise description of what was and was not
implemented.  i was not trying to justify it by an
appeal to language law.