[prog] c types confusion

Kathryn Hogg kjh at flyballdogs.com
Wed Mar 24 09:02:33 EST 2004


dominik.schramm at gmxpro.net said:
> Huh, why? Is that a typo/braino, or did you really mean
> 2^15?
> The size of signed int is 4 bytes, or 32 bits,
> and 2^32 / 2 == 2^31.

The size of an int isn't guaramteed to be any particular size only that
its at least as big as a short and no bigger than a long.  Depending on
the architecture, it could easily be 16, 32, or 64 bits.  But it is
actually 32 bits on most systems these days.

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