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TwoBit
on Dec 26, 2014
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Subtraction is not comparison
The C99 language standard requires support for long long.
dezgeg
on Dec 27, 2014
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But an implementation where sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == sizeof(long long) is allowed by the specification.
marvy
on Dec 31, 2014
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On a (slightly) more practical level: there exists some largest integer type. You may someday need to sort it. If you want your sort to always work, you can't afford to overflow.
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