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From: dwa1844@rit.edu (Daniel Anderson)
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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In article <345F49A2.5F5DC5A0@aom.ericsson.se>, qhslyng@aom.ericsson.se says...
>
>Bob Horvath wrote:
>> 
>> Hmmmm.  How big is an int?
>
>As I've understood it, an int has two legal sizes. A short has only one,
>and the same goes for a long. I believe that there were a lot of
>different compilers on the market before C was standardised. Some used 2
>byte int and some used 4 byte ints.
>
>short = 2      bytes
>int   = 2 or 4 bytes
>long  = 4      bytes
>
>If this is true, I see no reason for ever using ints in new C programs.

Actually, the size of the variables (the byte sizes) depend on the operating 
system.