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Types

The purpose of a type is to define a set of values that fit a particular definition. For example, the type int specifies a set of values in the range tex2html_wrap_inline991 , where b and n is a parameters of a target machine.

See Figure 16 for concepts.

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Table 16: Data Type Considerations



Steve Stevenson
Wed Feb 26 10:54:45 EST 1997