Hi On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:52:12 +0200 "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog@gmail.com> wrote: > Odd, I always thought is was because C did not have enough int types: > > char 1 bytes > short 2 bytes > int 4 bytes > long 8 bytes > > If you make an int 8 bytes, you have to find some other way of > indicating one of the shorter types (short short maybe? or long > char?). Nothing says long has to be bigger that int, only thing which is defined is: sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long) so having short, int, long of same size is not a problem. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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