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From: Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:25:07 +0100
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On 09/09/2024 00:20, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> On 08/09/2024 22:15, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>> [...]
>>>> I had a problem with this code because it was so verbose. The first
>>>> thing I did was to define aliases u64 and u32 for those long types:
>>>>
>>>>    typedef unsigned long long u64;
>>>>    typedef unsigned long u32;
>>> So you're assuming that unsigned long is 32 bits?  (It's 64 bits on
>>> the systems I use most.)
>>
>> That should be unsigned int.
> 
> So you're assumuing that unsigned int is 32 bits?

Yes. The code requires at least a 32-bit int anyway.


> I know you're aware of <stdint.h>.  You can use it to define your own
> u64 and 32 aliases if you like.


I know about that header. I find it fiddlier to type than writing 
unsigned long long once, which is bad enough.