Absolute size of 'short'

[Mike Tietel]

In article <214 at ISIDAPS5.UUCP>, mike at ISIDAPS5.UUCP (Mike Maloney) writes:
> Is the size of a (signed or unsigned) short integer guarenteed to
> be two bytes?  ...

No.  All that can be guarenteed is that:
     (sizeof short) <= (sizeof int) <= (sizeof long)

Therefore, there are no guarentees about the absolute size of a short.
Even under two different compiler implementations for the same hardware,
the sizes might be different.

mike tietel
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