From: Charles Terry <cterry AT plinet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How many bits do the Data types need?
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 06:36:35 -0700
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Lennart Marien wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> I have a short question concerning the data types in
> DJGPP.I programmed in Pascal and ASM so far and
> I now have to translate some Data Types.
> What I like to know is:
> How many bits is
> 
> a char(guess 8)
> a short(guess 16)
> an int(guess 32)
> a long(no idea) ////32 also
> 
> Thank you!

Have you go the info viewer installed? No problem answering
that question but you probably should look at the gcc specifics
for endians, register usage, ect.
command>  INFO 
Its also quicker than the Web.

Charles Terry