For instance, real number in Java takes 8 byte while it only takes 4 byte in C++. Similarly, for character, Java takes 2 bytes, but C++ takes only 1 byte. Why are they of different size?
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For instance, real number in Java takes 8 byte while it only takes 4 byte in C++. Similarly, for character, Java takes 2 bytes, but C++ takes only 1 byte. Why are they of different size?
What you are stating isn’t true. C and C++ don’t have any fixed sized types (apart from those specified in
stdint.h).And if you didn’t get you answer from that statement, here is an explicit one:
“There is a difference, because Java contains fixed sized data types, while all basic data types in C and C++ depend on the actual platform (machine architecture + operating system) the program is compiled for.”