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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:33:00 -0700
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 08/04/2025 22:46, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>
>>> Clearly, they're not quite as fully supported as short, int etc; they
>>> are usually just aliases. But that needn't stop them being shown on
>>> such a chart.
>> Apparently the author of the chart chose to include types that are
>> defined by the core language, not by the library.
>
> So here you're finally admitteding they are a different rank.

I'm not "finally admitting" anything.  I don't know or care what you
mean by "rank" (it happens to be a technical term in the standard, but
that's clearly not what you meant).

[SNIP]

> Actually I can't quite see the purpose of this chart, why it has to be
> so complicated (even with bits missing) or who it is for.

So you're wasting time arguing about something you don't even care
about.  Consider not doing that anymore.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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