Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Absolute size of 'short'
Keywords: unsigned wrap-around
Message-ID: <11703@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 2 Aug 88 15:03:14 GMT
References: <214@ISIDAPS5.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <214@ISIDAPS5.UUCP> mike@ISIDAPS5.UUCP (Mike Maloney) writes:
| Dear C-Heavies,
| 
| Is the size of a (signed or unsigned) short integer guarenteed to
| be two bytes?  I need to manipulate and compare some unsigned ints
| modulo 65536.  It would be clean and convenient to just let the
| machine handle my wrap-around from 0 to 0xffff and verse-vica.

  Shorts are at least two bytes, but may be longer, and bytes are at
least eight bits but may be more, such as 9 on a 36 bit machine (PDP10,
Honeywell), or 12 (some DEC machine with 12 bit words).
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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