size of an int

[AmberJain]

Hello,

Let me to quote from "Brian W. Kernighan. Dennis M. Ritchie :The C programming language"

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On site 111:

The reply #12 contains a download link to the book "The C programming language". Now that link might violate the copyrights for the book. Admins/mods ahould consider removing that link.

Also, I could not find report button for this thread and so I replied in this thread.

Thanks....
AmbrNewlearner

[boxfish]

The report button is the little red and white triangle with the black line in the top right corner.

[axneer]

The author of my book is saying
"on a 16 bit OS like MS-DOS or windows 3.1 an integer occupies 2 bytes,In case of 32 bit Os like windows 95/98/Me/NT the size of int is 4 bytes"

also he has given a table like

data type range
signed char (-128 to 127)
unsigned char (0 to 255 )
signed int (-32768 to 32767)
like so on------

and said note at the bottom "the sizes and ranges of int,short and long are OS dependent.Sizes in figures are for 16 bit OS"

is he wrong or partially correct?

[newb16]

and said note at the bottom "the sizes and ranges of int,short and long are OS dependent.Sizes in figures are for 16 bit OS"

is he wrong or partially correct?

He is correct about ranges for 16- and 8-bit values. But sizes for builtin types are defined by compiler, not OS. If he did not explained it as 'sizes of values accepted by OS API functions' it is wrong - e.g. 32bit program under dos extender under dos.

[Banfa]

The reply #12 contains a download link to the book "The C programming language".

Good catch but by quoting it you doubled the amount of clean-up I had to do :D

[AmberJain]

Hello,

The report button is the little red and white triangle with the black line in the top right corner.

Oh ok...I get it now. ty.

Good catch but by quoting it you doubled the amount of clean-up I had to do :D

OOPS..I almost forgot that. ;)

AmbrNewlearner