RE: [Dev-C++] int and long int sizes

[Ioannis V. <iv...@em...>]

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> Of Andr? Macario Barros
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 6:13 AM
> To: Dev-Cpp-Users
> Subject: [Dev-C++] int and long int sizes
> 
> 
> Dear Users,
> 
>    printf("%d\n", sizeof(long int));
> and
>    printf("%d\n", sizeof(int));
> 
> produces the same value, 4.
> 
> Is there no more difference between a int and a long int?


C & C++ standards do not require the types to be different. The size of a
type is implementation dependent. The only restriction that exists is that
sizeof(char)==sizeof(signed char)==sizeof(unsigned char)==1 byte.


So in theory an implementation is allowed to have sizeof(long)=1.






Ioannis Vranos
 
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