On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Jim Rees <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
I may have been confused on this issue -- the more I think about it, the more I realize that it's not important to know what the actual number of bits is.

Okay, great.  Any more comments/critique you have will be great, of course.  As you recommended, I set things up so that if a procedure has an equivalent C99 function or macro, it has exactly the same semantics, and almost all the procedures do.

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