Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Absolute size of 'short'
Message-ID: <8300@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 2 Aug 88 19:08:46 GMT
References: <214@ISIDAPS5.UUCP> <9641@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 5

A short is required to be at least 16 bits.  It may be as big as a
long.  It must not be bigger than a long nor than an int, and must
not be smaller than a char.  (A char is not necessarily 8 bits.)

There are undobtedly toy "C" implementations that don't follow
the rules.