Error in GCC documentation page

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Thu Jul 8 12:45:00 GMT 2010


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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