B. Primitive Types

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Fig. B.1. Primitive types.

To promote portability, Microsoft uses internationally recognized standards for character formats (Unicode, www.unicode.org) and floating-point numbers (IEEE 754, grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/). We discuss Unicode in Appendix E, Unicode®.

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