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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: bits in an int vs. long?
Message-ID: <866@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 89 15:38:50 GMT
References: <181@inpnms.UUCP> <252BB03A.2AEC@drivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <252BB03A.2AEC@drivax.UUCP>, frotz@drivax.UUCP (Frotz) writes:

|  It is my understanding that:
|  
|  	sizeof(char) < sizeof(short) < sizeof(long)
|  	sizeof(short) == 2
|  	sizeof(long)  == 4

Actually sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)

All of the sizeof are defined as being a minimum number of bits, or the
equivalent range I don't remember. I suspect that char could be the same
size as short if someone made a char large enough (16 bits min).

This from the bible according to St ANSI ;-)

  In some machines the sizeof short, int, and long are identical.
Extrapolate to unsigned everything and float/double, too.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon