Re: Use of C99 int types

[Grzegorz Kulewski]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Dag Arne Osvik wrote:
> (...) And, at least in 
> theory, long may even provide less than 32 bits.

Are you sure?

My copy of famous C book by B. W. Kernighan and D. Ritchie says that

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

and

sizeof(short) >= 16,
sizeof(int) >= 16,
sizeof(long) >= 32.

The book is about ANSI C not C99 but I think this is still valid.

Am I wrong?


Grzegorz Kulewski
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