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A comment on Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972). Parent comment

Re:Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972) by hakanai on Sunday March 14, 2021 @09:49PM (#26461731)
If you need an 18-bit int it would be called int18 under this scheme. And encountering things like int18 in code, at least you would never wonder what kind of int it was.
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