[OCLUG-devel] determining the size of data types

[Christopher Smith]

On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 17:33, James Colannino wrote:
> Hey everyone.  I was wondering what I could do to determine the size of 
> certain data types on my architecture.  For example, I want to be able 
> to determine how many bytes are assigned to unsigned short integers as 
> well as what the numerical range is.  Is there some simple code that I 
> can write to test this?  I actually don't really need to know at this 
> point how many bytes are assigned to each, but I do need to be able to 
> know the numerical range of any given type.  Thanks in advance.

I assume this is still C/C++ programming, so then you'd want to look at
sizeof().

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Christopher Smith <x at xman.org>