From: Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Some comments and questions
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 22:21:40 -0400
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Kris Heidenstrom wrote:
> >> Language implementation info - the info file for the standard C library
> >> is good, but I can't find any language implementation reference - for
> >> example, something that will tell me what size a 'short' will be, etc.
> >
> > No body wrote such a text so isn't available.
> 
> Fair enough.

You can easily do that, just declare global vars in a file, like

double dbl
float flt
then compile with the -S switch and look at the output...
you will get something like
.comm _dbl,8
and the 8 is the number of bytes you have in the double (I dunno if
double is actually 8 bytes)
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