On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:38:17PM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote: > 2. (Optional) while you're at it, why not use WORD_BIT/LONG_BIT (with > defaults of 32 for both) and skip the sizeof test for int/long. Why, when you are guaranteed that CHAR_BIT*sizeof(type) works? r~