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echo: os2prog
to: Dane Walther
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1996-05-30 04:56:44
subject: predefined types? where

DW>
  > Most importantly, what are the predefined types?
DW>

  char
  signed char
  unsigned char
  short int                 unsigned short int
  int                       unsigned int
  long int                  unsigned long int
  float
  double
  long double
  bool
  wchar_t

  If you mean "what are the type aliases and macros defined in the OS/2
  toolkit header files?", then the easiest way to find out is to take your
  favourite text editor and load up OS2DEF.H.

  Many of them are legacies of the hordes of Pascal programmers that
  infested Microsoft in the middle 1980s.  They didn't really know how to
  write C, so they did daft things like

    typedef long LONG ;

  > JdeBP <
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