"Stringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> >Subject: Re: passing char* data
> >From: John Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 21:02:51 +0200
>
> >On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:48:09PM -0400, Stringer wrote:
> >> Nope. The only size requirement is sizeof(short) <= sizeof(long)
> >> There's no set size for 'short', 'int' or 'long'
> >>
> >> And there's no gaurentee of sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int)
> >> or of sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
> >>
> >> In theory 'int' could be larger than 'long' or smaller than 'short',
though
> >> all processors you are currently likely to run into seem to have
> >> sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
> >
> >Uh... okay, if we're going to be pedantic, and if we're going to worry
> >about this stuff, let's be *right*. (In the following, I'm going to
> >simplify by assuming that we're dealing with the binary two's-complement
> >layouts we all know and love.)
> >
> >Standard C and C++ provide the following guarantees, except that
> >"long long" does not exist in standard C++:
> >
> > |char| >= 8 bits
> > |short| >= 16 bits
> > |int| >= 16 bits
> > |long| >= 32 bits
> > |long long| >= 64 bits
> >
> > |char| <= |short| <= |int| <= |long| <= |long long|
> >
> >ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (the C99 standard) specifies the minimum sizes for
> >each type in section 5.2.4.2.1 and the progression amongst them in
> >sections 6.2.5/8 and 6.3.1.1.
>
> OK John. Glad they fixed the definitions.
> A loooong time ago I worked on a system where 'int' was
> 8 bits, and both 'short' and 'long' were 16 bits. Got caught out
> pretty badly until I realized how small the 'int' was!
> That kind of experience can sear things into your brain.
"int" was 8 bits & "short" was 16 bits? That sounds more like
a compiler bug than anything else.
what system (& what compiler) was that?
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