Re: Use of C99 int types

[Dag Arne Osvik]

Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:

> 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?


No, I just looked it up (section 2.2), and you're right.

--
 Dag Arne

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