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From: rex@aussie.UUCP (Rex Jaeschke)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: short vs. long
Message-ID: <19.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 18:27:33 GMT
References: <11763@well.UUCP>
Organization: Journal of C Language Translation
Lines: 22

> The current draft of the standard does not require that the sizeof short is
> less than or equal to the sizeof int; nor that sizeof int is less than or
> equal to sizeof long.

This is one of those "by a careful reading of the draft" type 
questions. Page 23 lines 36-43 states that "... the range of values of 
each type [signed char, short, int, long] is a subrange of the values 
of the next type in the list."

Page 24 line 2 requires unsigned versions to have the same size as 
signed counterparts.

Certainly, the situation with the fp types is far more obvious in 
lines 10-11.

Rex

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