From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: # bits in int,char, long, shrttt
Date: 30 Apr 1997 18:34:00 GMT
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Brett J. Wiesner (brett AT allegro DOT cs DOT tufts DOT edu) wrote:
: could someone tell me how many bits there are in each of these:
: int
32
: long
32
: char
8
: short
16
: long long
64 AFAIK; never used it

: under djgpp of course. im using a pentium if it matters.

As mentioned elsewhere in this group, use `int' for general-purpose whole
numbers, char for characters, and the others if only you specifically need
a number of that bit size (e.g. reading data from a binary file). If you
need a 32 bit integer, use long rather than int, for portability. MAXINT
is the largest value an int can take, for reference.

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford