Scott Wegener wrote:
> Your compiler is not 'broken'-any decent C book you may be using
> should have mentioned that the size of an int is implementation
> dependent.
Yep.
> DOS/Windoze defines an int as a short int(2 bytes), whereas most
> flavors of Unix define an int as a long int, which is 4 bytes.
Your use of `short int' and `long int' here is misleading. The C types
with these names don't have any specific size. The only guarantees
are:
a) sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
and
b) a char is at least 8 bits
a short is at least 16 bits
an int is at least 16 bits
a long is at least 32 bits
A long is typically 64 bits on 64 bit architectures. The case of the
Cray, where all types are 64 bits is perfectly valid.
--
Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
