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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.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: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:48:33 -0700
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Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 25.03.2025 05:56, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> My apologies if I'm using language independent terms.
>
> The problem is that what was written used the word "integral"
> incorrectly.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/integral

    5 *Arithmetic.* pertaining to or being an integer; not fractional.

[...]

>> The literal "3.0" is usually not representing the value of an
>> integral [data] type like 'int'.[*]
>
> In C the word is constant, not literal;  literals are something
> else.

The next edition of the C standard, following C23, will use the terms
"integer literal", "floating literal", and "character literal".
See the N3301 draft, for example.

[...]

> One more time:  it is INTEGER data type, not INTEGRAL data type.

I believe we all heard you the 10th time.

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */