sizeof (integral types)

[Glenn L. Austin]

In article <10044 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <12005 at paris.ics.uci.edu> Doug Schmidt <schmidt at glacier.ics.uci.edu> writes:
>>I realize the relation short <= int <= long holds, I'm just curious
>>whether there is any minimum that these basic types must meet (e.g.,
>>short >= 16 bits, etc.).
>
>chars are at least 8 bits,
>shorts are at least 16 bits,
>longs are at least 32 bits.

longs are guaranteed to be at least 24 bits (according to C++, sec 2.3.1)


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