On 08-Nov-97, Cameron Clark wrote to Fernando Ariel Gont about Re: 
Portability.
 CC> them. Don't use assembly language, direct memory access, or
 CC> unfortunately assumptions about the size of primitive data types.
 CC> Even thought a char is a byte on every system I've used, and int
 CC> may be 2 or 4 bytes, and a long int may be 4 or 8 bytes.
A char is a byte by definition, but the rest sizes may vary.
Javier Kohen  [The_Crusher] http://jkohen.base.org
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