from 32 to 64

Paul Black paul-fedora2009 at saturnine.org.uk
Sat Aug 1 09:13:16 UTC 2009


On 31/07/09 21:13, Paul wrote:
> A char, for instance, is always 8 bits or one byte. A Unicode char, if
> implemented, is 16 bits or two bytes.

A char is always one byte (by definition) but this need not be 8 bits.


> An int is a "natural" integer, a.k.a. "word", for the CPU architecture,
> so 8, 16, 32 or 64 bits depending on the CPU.

An int is at least 16 bits.

-- 
Paul





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