[Courses] [C] Beginner's Lesson 4B: Arrays, Qualifiers, and Reading Numbers

[Eugene Teo]

depends on the arch.
always do sizeof to check the bitsize. never trust the book.

Eugene

<quote who="Malcolm-Rannirl">
u> On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:09 am, Lorne Gutz wrote:
u> 
u> > Note:  a short is always 16 bits and a long is 32 bits but
u> >        an int can be either 16 or 32.......maybe even 64 on
u> > some of the larger computers.
u> 
u> Not entirely true. A short is *at least* 16 bits and a long *at least* 32.
u> Longs are always at least the size of an int (so you can't have a 64 bit int 
u> and a 32 bit long, which the above suggests is possible). So you could have a 
u> short that is 32 bits on a 64 bit processor (or on a 32 bit one, but that's 
u> unlikely).
u> 
u> At least according to the C++ book, though I don't think that's an 
u> incompatibility with C (I just don't have the C reference on my desk).
u> (I seem to remember a 8bit short/16bit long machine, but that could have been 
u> with a pre-ANSI compiler).
u> 
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