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Re: Error in GCC documentation page
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Robert Dewar wrote:
> For another take, though the Ada standard extensively uses the word
> integral, it does prefer integer type, by analogy with array type,
> record type etc, where no adjective is available.
>
> But as noted the C++ standard prefers integral type, so might as well
> standardize on that when talking about C or C++.
C99 uses "integer type". This was adopted consistently following DR#067
pointing out the variation in C90 between "integer type" and "integral
type".
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_067.html
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