From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why does sizeof give me...
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 23:25:59 -0700
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Two things: firstly, gcc is 32 bit and treats int as long, not short.
> Make
> your app use short and long explicitly. Use short where the 16 bit app
> used int in the structs. Second, gcc pads structs. Read the info on
> __attribute__ ((packed)) and use it on the struct.

As the chief ANSI C advocate on this newsgroup, I should point out that
ANSI does not say anything about the size of the fundamental integer types
(short, int, long), except that short is no larger than int and int is no
larger than long, and short is at least 16 bits and long is at least 32.
(What's interesting is that these latter two requirements are hidden
rather well in the standard.)

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