--- In [email protected], "John Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "peternilsson42" <peternilsson42@> > wrote: > > > > 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. > > Are they used in particular types of applications? > > I know you used to get 16 and 32 bit ints on compilers for the old 8 > bit CPUs (Z80, 6502 etc.), but I wasn't aware of compilers whose ints > were smaller than the size of the CPU
...apart from 32 bit ints on compilers running on 64 bit CPUs that is, but I can understand why you might want that.
