Re: [Fractdev] 2 probs w the 20.99.8 Fractint 4 Windows

Size of various types is very fundamental, and has to be well
understood by programmers using C. By and large, for Fractint it was.
The Microsoft DOS compiler had:

short = int = two bytes
long = four bytes

Until recently, most other systems (e.g. Unix/Linux) had:

short = two bytes
int = long = four bytes

Until the advent of 64 bit cpus, the most reliable of these were
short and long, which you could count on as being 16 and 32 bits

It is unlikely to gain much to search for "2" :-) The parser pretty
much had a different set of authors from the rest of Fractint, of
varying skill and experience - Mark Peterson, George Martin, and
Chuck Ebbert. I've studied the code enough to understand it and added
some functions.

Any hardcoded assumption that int = 16 bits would have created a
problem with the Linux port. We generally tried to stick to short or
long when the size mattered and avoid int except where the size
didn't matter.

Tim