Re: Storage layout of integral types

2021-02-01 Thread Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 05:34:04PM +0100, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering what the supposed storage layout of integral types is. In > particular for integral types with size less than the size of a word. For > example, on a 64bit machine is

Storage layout of integral types

2021-01-19 Thread Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus
Hi all, I'm wondering what the supposed storage layout of integral types is. In particular for integral types with size less than the size of a word. For example, on a 64bit machine is a 32bit integer supposed to be written as a whole word and therefore as 64 bits or just as 32bits