From: donadio@isptechinc.com (Matthew Donadio) Subject: Re: long long vs long 24 Jul 1998 23:08:58 -0700 Message-ID: <35B8C883.3AD9.cygnus.gnu-win32@isptechinc.com> References: <199807221508.LAA12504@alcove.wittsend.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Timothy Writer Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Timothy Writer wrote: > sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long) > and > sizeof(char) == 1 > sizeof(short) >= 2 > sizeof(int) >= 2 > sizeof(long) >= 4 Not necessarilly. By definition sizeof(char) is always 1 no matter what CHAR_BIT is defined to be. But the values for the other sizeof's are not correct for all machines. For example, on the TMS320C3x and TMS320C4x families, the minimum addressable memory unit is 32 bits, so CHAR_BIT for this machine is 32. It also happens that all other intergral types (short, int, and long) are 32 bits (the exact size of char), so sizeof(char) == sizeof(short) == sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == 1 Weird, but legal. -- Matt Donadio (donadio@isptechinc.com) | 43 Leopard Rd, Suite 102 Sr. Software Engineer | Paoli, PA 19301-1552 Image & Signal Processing, Inc. | Phone: +1 610 407 4391 http://www.isptechinc.com | FAX: +1 610 407 4405 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".