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From: Ron Natalie <ron@sensor.com>
Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was:
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Date: 1997/11/04
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Marcelo Meira wrote:

> > Actually, the size of the variables (the byte sizes) depend on the operating
> > system.
> 
> Illustrating, in an IRIX64 system:
> 
> short = 2 bytes
> int   = 4 bytes
> long  = 8 bytes
> 
Actually, it's even worse than that, it varies on the implementation,
not just the OS.  It's perfectly valid (and happens on IRIX) that
different compilers (or settings) can cause the sizes to change.