On 6 May 2013 12:11, JimJoyce <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When Dennis Ritchie invented the C Programming language, he suggested that a > short int would normally occupy 2 bytes, and a long int would take 4 bytes, > and no matter what the hardware, a long should always be longer than a > short. That makes sense. Are you sure that long a long must be longer than a short? Is is not sizeof(long) >= sizeof(short) ? I used a Cray where the size of shorts, ints and longs were all 8 bytes. Dave
