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Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe that it is the size of > the processor, that is a 16-bit > CPU had 2 bytes for a integer, a > 32-bit CPU has 4 bytes for a integer > and a 64-bit CPU will have 8 bytes for > a Integer. There's no shortage of 16 and 32-bit processors where an int is 1 byte in the C implementations that support them. As far back as 1983 there was at least one 64-bit architecture with an implementation of C where an int was 1 byte. Since the term byte is defined in both C and C++, it should not be confused with the term octet. -- Peter
