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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.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 08:45:06 +0100
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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. I'm confident,
though, that most people (obviously you as well) understood the term.

I understand that the "C" standard may have consistently been using
another naming. - Frankly, I'm a bit puzzled that general (language
independent) terms are considered "incorrect" by the audience here.

> The constant 3.0, for example, has an integral value, but it
> does not have an integer value.

The literal "3.0" is usually not representing the value of an integral
[data] type like 'int'.[*]

(You are speaking about "integral value" here, I was speaking about
the "integral [data] types". Not sure why you shifted the goalpost.)

Janis

[*] For languages that don't have a distinguished integral numeric
data type, or that do implicit coercion, things may be different of
course.