Date: Sun,  1 Mar 98 23:02:05 PST
From: Noam Rotem <nrotem AT johnbryce DOT co DOT il>
Subject: int being 2 or 4 bytes long
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Maybe it's trivial, but why is there a data type which its size can be different in 
different compilers? I refer to 'int'. Why can it be 2 or 4 bytes, depending on the 
implementation? What's the logic?

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Noam Rotem
John Bryce Training Centre
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