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Re: Error in GCC documentation page

Joern Rennecke wrote:
Quoting Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>:

But as noted the C++ standard prefers integral type, so might as well
standardize on that when talking about C or C++.


I think it also helps clarity to speak of integral types.  I.e. in the C
family of languages, 'char' is an integral type, but you may not use the
'int' keyword for a 'char' declaration.


that's actually a good *technical* argument for systematically using
integral instead of integer. If we have a glossary somewhere, we could
even have an entry for integral type that pointed out that this includes
char.

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