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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Integral types and own type definitions (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:56:24 -0700
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

[...]

> When I started with "C" or C++ there were not only 8-bit
> multiples defined for the integral types;  [...]

In C the correct phrase is integer types, not integral types.
The constant 3.0, for example, has an integral value, but it
does not have an integer value.